Periagoge
Scenario

When intellectual groups avoid the hard conversations

Our book club started as a way to think seriously about big ideas but it's turned into a place where people just recommend things to each other and nobody wants to sit with difficult questions, and I'm wondering if this is just what happens when you try to think together or if there's something we're all avoiding.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group formed around shared curiosity has unconsciously chosen comfort over the difficulty of genuine inquiry.

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Hypatia
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Peri

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