Our friend group has this weekly creative salon that used to feel generative and now feels performative - we're all trying to impress each other with our insights instead of actually exploring ideas together. The conversations have gotten sharper but less honest, and I miss when we used to stumble toward understanding together instead of arriving with our thoughts already polished.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to appear sophisticated has replaced the willingness to think out loud together.
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