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Spilling Out Our Lives

The case for having fewer opinions.

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Shadi Hamid
Dec 20, 2022
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Spilling Out Our Lives

I’m not sure I have the energy to sustain an argument over the course of an entire essay, so perhaps it’s best for me not to try. It’s also a difficult burden to carry, to always have opinions on whatever happens to be happening at any given moment. There’s also a question of intensity. To express a public preference requires effort, and that effort mea…

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