If you want to actually change someone’s mind, you have to care about the conditions under which minds change. Minds rarely change under humiliation… - Kpaxs

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If you want to actually change someone’s mind, you have to care about the conditions under which minds change.

Minds rarely change under humiliation. They rarely change while cornered. They rarely change while being publicly defeated. They rarely change when the change requires immediate exile from their people.

People need bridges.

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About Kpaxs

Pseudonymous reader and writer based in Paris. Posts as @Kpaxs on X and publishes the Three Times Wiser Substack. Real name not publicly disclosed.

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The high-agency question “what would I do if no one was coming?” is this brutal clarifying lens that cuts through all the bullshit waiting-for-permission energy that keeps most people stuck.

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