--- ## Highlights Philosophers are trained to look for these unconscious assumptions and make them obvious. He talks about thinking like a soldier talks about interrogation. He subjects ideas to ruthless torture, shaking them and grabbing them by the throat until they can no longer breathe and, eventually, reveal their true nature. The scary thing was that, like a teenager who wears the same clothes as all the other kids at school, I unconsciously accepted the intellectual assumptions of my social environment. These days, it seems like every office building, conference center, and apartment complex has the same abstract art on the walls. None of it says anything. It reflects a culture of spinelessness in which people are afraid to take a stand, fearing the repercussions of saying something bold in public.