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🧠 Intellectual Menopause
What happens when someone puts real effort into something deeply misguided? Venkatesh Rao examines the pattern through the lens of 'intellectual menopause' — ideological stagnation, the impulse to double down on fading ideals rather than engage with a changing world. Once you see it, you s
What happens when someone puts real effort into something deeply misguided? Venkatesh Rao examines the pattern through the lens of 'intellectual menopause' — ideological stagnation, the impulse to double down on fading ideals rather than engage with a changing world. Once you see it, you see it everywhere. The healthier instinct, he suggests, is to question values in decline and seek something more vital, rather than solemnly living them out to their inevitable exhaustion.
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