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Scenario

How to address performative intellectualism in discussion groups

Our book club started as a way to think seriously about big questions together but it's become a place where everyone brings their predetermined positions and defends them rather than letting the ideas change us. We're having debates instead of conversations and I don't know how to say that without sounding preachy.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group dynamic has shifted from genuine inquiry to intellectual posturing without anyone explicitly choosing that change.

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