What place does full-throated disagreement have in our everyday lives? Or, rather, how much space should we create for it? We are, of course, allowed to find and build supportive communities of like-minded individuals, but consensus does not sharpen political opinions.

Tania Bruguera realized this when she planted actors at a liberal political panel for her Generic Capitalism (2009).  These actors attacked the panel speakers for either being too reactionary or too revolutionary—Bruguera had no political motive beyond breaking up the assumed political consensus in the room.

We can stage these interventions, which break up the intellectual monotony of living in an ideological bubble, for ourselves. When your constant interior political dialogue becomes too harmonious, maybe you need to be attacked as well. Submit your ideas to a good-faith public space where neither you nor anyone else has curated an ideological homogeneity, and put your own convictions to the test.