new to this website, will prob update this later
I’m not going to force people to do that, the point is not to force it and you can’t “force it” anyways
I’m not going to make sure they learn it, you can’t “make sure”
I can only judge from my own / our own analysis. You can make up a quantitative metric “critical thinking score” but you would only be fooling yourself.
No, that’s not what I said. I said in order to answer your question to me, you’d have to delve in to these disciplines. Although sure, for people to get better at critical thinking, of course it would help to actually… learn to think and have intellectual pursuits.
And it’s nothing to do with a degree. It’s the deep study time and focused effort that counts.
All these comments, and no one is talking about the hot rod computer in the photo?
You want me to give you some objective “measure” like “inches” about most people’s critical thinking skills? If you really want a thorough analysis I’m sure you could delve into the social sciences, philosophy, humanities … history, sociology, psychology, anthropology etc., but that may not please you if you want it purely quantified.
Counterpoint: Critical thinking and empathy are important, and a lot of people don’t have much / aren’t very good at it
*30s
still had too much hope in my 20s
on the other hand, they don’t expect the left right right left
Oh I know it’s not impossible, I did say virtually impossible :)
I’ve tried many times at this point, with a bunch of different groups in different places
antisocial
What you say is true, and yet there’s something more deeply unsettling. The ideology and founding of the U.S. is at its core anti-social. So is the competitive economy (and so on). It’s a dog eat dog structure of things, not just a few dip shits in the <1% (although it is that too)
With those two incredibly low bars you eliminated like 30% of people around me every day, which is a good way of illustrating how insufferable it is to keep moving through this society
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
I whole-heartedly agree, and yet it is virtually impossible to do such a thing as “build community” at this point, at least in the United States. There is like a pervasive anti-community dark magic / anti-matter sort of thing
For capitalism to be “good” basically everyone would have to be a saint. That’s why something better than capitalism is needed, because that is far from the case, and actually impossible
heyyy no need to drag the Grinch like that…
Yeah, that is exactly what I’ve thought of Yanis V’s “critique” as well. Well said
It’s a kind of rebrand of Marxism that is missing out on some important points, even the defining elements of capitalism which are still in place. Like, he is saying capitalism is not capitalism anymore? His idea is that capitalism has been “killed” which is disingenuous at best (if he’s just using it as hyperbole) and completely wrong at worst, since we are indeed still broadly in the thick of it. It does seem sorta like he just wanted to sell a book or hear himself talk etc.
So you are just gonna say that what i said is “probably” not a critical thought? That doesn’t sound like a very critical thought, itself!
You made a statement that critical thinking doesn’t mean anything, but more likely you just are unfamiliar with it.