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When intellectual groups avoid real disagreement

Our book club started as a way to actually wrestle with big ideas together, but now when someone brings up anything that challenges the group's general worldview, there's this polite deflection that happens and we all pretend we didn't notice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community committed to thinking together discovers they've unconsciously created boundaries around which thoughts are acceptable to share.

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