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>Questions like… >> Do we focus too much on classic books/music/movies/plays/art/ideas, or too little? >require critical thinking, in the moment, to form an op
by sebzim4500 4y ago
>Questions like…
>> Do we focus too much on classic books/music/movies/plays/art/ideas, or too little?
>require critical thinking, in the moment, to form an opinion (as do most other examples on the list).
Do they? Maybe it's my superpower but I can form opinions on these things without any thought at all. Whether the opinion is defensible is a different question.
- defterGoose 4y agoYou've just described the base class of all opinions. Fickle and uninformed.
- tetromino_ 4y agoI get as far as the second word and get stuck: who the hell is "we"? The people in the room? My family? My social circle? My current and former colleagues? The people in my neighborhood or my kid's school district? The members of my economic class? People who speak the same language(s) as me? People who have the same citizenship(s) as me? People whose views get portrayed in this country's mainstream media? And for whichever definition of "we", how well - or at all! - do I know what they focus on? And how can I judge what for those people would be too much or too little? It's a question to which one cannot even begin to formulate an answer without quite a bit of thinking.