I know it's a cheap way of thinking about it, but I just can't get over writing a whole article (on further reading: a whole book) trying to convince your audi

I know it's a cheap way of thinking about it, but I just can't get over writing a whole article (on further reading: a whole book) trying to convince your audience that they shouldn't be trying to persuade people. (Of course, that's not the whole of the point—it's that discovery should be a collaborative process, not a one-sided process of the 'right' imposing their worldview on the 'wrong'—but writing a Boston Review article, or, rather, a book from which a Boston Review article is excerpted, is a pretty one-sided process.)