Hehe...here's a controversial one.
The process and the consequences of fighting oppressive heirarchies are worse the heirarchies themselves - my take on Mencius Moldbug.
I don't really agree. But I've tried pretty hard to wrap my head around his ideology (he's incredibly long winded) and this is what I got from it. If I had to add a second sentence, it would be this:
"Progressive culture seduces intellectual elites and redirects their power to destructive, unreflective, self-righteous reformation."
..."This reformation inevitably strengthens the Progressive ideology and institutions, resulting in an invisible feedback cycle of power".
If there are any actual formalists reading this thread, I'd like to see one of them condense the main point into a supershort string like this, because it's really long...
This subthread deteriorated into an unchecked and fruitless political discussion. How sad.
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)