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When your philosophy group stops being a real conversation

Three of us have been meeting monthly for two years to talk through the big questions we can't discuss anywhere else, but lately one person dominates every conversation and the rest of us have started staying quiet, and I can feel the whole thing slowly dying but don't know how to address it without seeming like I'm attacking them.

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The delicate ecology of genuine intellectual exchange has been disrupted by unequal participation, and addressing it directly risks destroying what remains.

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