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>> As every freshman course in “critical thinking” reminds us, the dull, unhappy burden of the rational mind is to follow the evidence where it leads, not the b
by renox 7y ago
>> As every freshman course in “critical thinking” reminds us, the dull, unhappy burden of the rational mind is to follow the evidence where it leads, not the bandwagon.
>If you do that you frequently end up with a position that is "extremist" to someone or another.
Especially in the USA with its huge number of religious followers, in Europe (depends on which part) maybe not so much?
That said when talking about society, critical thinking is easy, coming up with credible proposals is hard.
- barry-cotter 7y ago> Especially in the USA with its huge number of religious followers, in Europe (depends on which part) maybe not so much? The unity of views on many, many different topics among followers of a single political party would be vanishingly unlikely unless they were taking their beliefs and talking points from their fellow party members rather than thinking for themselves. This is not a US specific thing. Normal people don’t reason from principle, they reason coalitionally, based on the two most important questions in politics Who, Whom?
- SantalBlush 7y agoThey're not unified by their views so much as by the "other" that they share. A common enemy helps them overlook their ideological differences, so those differences are not often discussed. This gives a stronger appearance of groupthink.