I totally hear you. To be a modern intellectual is exhausting, because of the constant pressure to be in a tribe, to take a side, and -let’s be honest - to be the smartest person in the room. Add in social media and the incentives are all crappy. You do you. And you’ll be a different person in different settings, on different topics, sometimes listening, sometimes speaking. That’s not gendered, that’s human. And if you’re seeking and speaking truth the best you can with whoever you’re speaking or listening to, you’re being authentically you. And that includes the right to change your mind later, no matter what label someone else wants to stick on it. Owning your uncertainty and intellectuals curiosity/honesty can be a super power when everyone around you is singing from the same hymnal.
I was listening to the Peter Turchin episode and you said "low and behold things were shit" in an English accent. I thought that was so funny. Who ever said there's a gendered dynamic is a fool!
I totally hear you. To be a modern intellectual is exhausting, because of the constant pressure to be in a tribe, to take a side, and -let’s be honest - to be the smartest person in the room. Add in social media and the incentives are all crappy. You do you. And you’ll be a different person in different settings, on different topics, sometimes listening, sometimes speaking. That’s not gendered, that’s human. And if you’re seeking and speaking truth the best you can with whoever you’re speaking or listening to, you’re being authentically you. And that includes the right to change your mind later, no matter what label someone else wants to stick on it. Owning your uncertainty and intellectuals curiosity/honesty can be a super power when everyone around you is singing from the same hymnal.
I was listening to the Peter Turchin episode and you said "low and behold things were shit" in an English accent. I thought that was so funny. Who ever said there's a gendered dynamic is a fool!