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When intellectual groups become performative

Our book club started as a way to have deeper conversations but it's become a place where we perform having read the book and demonstrate how thoughtful we are rather than admitting what we don't understand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The pressure to appear wise prevents the vulnerability necessary for actual learning to occur together.

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