Great piece on why living an examined life can't exclude examinations of social relations and politics, especially for a species that is inherently social and political, by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. (Or as I almost put it, great piece of thinking about thinking about thinking.)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
"The very first line of Open Socrates admonishes the reader, “There is a question you are avoiding.” For Callard, that question is: Why are you living this way? But this only points to a host of questions that Callard herself avoids..."
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Of Caillard, my impression is she is committed not so much to examining her life, as to providing other people the opportunity to examine it. Ideally, in places like The New Yorker or Vanity Fair.