And yeah, I am as much a part of this across-the-board failure of the self-styled intellectual classes as anyone.
People are at best either thinking imaginatively about risk-free safe topics or with zero imagination about difficult topics.
Failure of nerve AND imagination 
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Is this a challenge? Because
@sarahdoingthing's work on suicide, bioethics and sacredness (i.e., difficult, risky stuff) is, to my mind, full of imaginative & at least potentially discourse-expanding insight. Could name a few others who I think add value while playing with fire. -
That was a lifetime ago! I’m talking last couple of years
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Please provide a list of difficult, risky topics. This is a very pessimistic perspective! I wonder if the people doing this just don't advertise it. My husband, for example, thinks about data science to solve homelessness, but doesn't tell anyone outside of his work environment.
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