Our book club has been meeting for two years and we've somehow created this environment where everyone feels like they have to have the 'right' opinion about whatever we're reading, especially anything political, and none of us are actually changing our minds about anything or learning from each other anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group formed to explore ideas together has inadvertently created social pressure that prevents the intellectual risk-taking that makes real conversation possible.
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