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When your discussion group stops actually discussing

Our book club was supposed to be this intellectual space where we could explore big ideas together, but it's become performative — everyone just restates positions they already hold instead of actually thinking out loud with each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual community requires genuine uncertainty, but social pressure often rewards the performance of certainty instead.

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