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Where did I ver say anything that indicated I thought it was a new phenomenon or that I was limiting what I was describing to a short time frame? That aside, n

Where did I ver say anything that indicated I thought it was a new phenomenon or that I was limiting what I was describing to a short time frame? That aside, no idea what you are arguing here. It seems to be that because critical thinking won't solve every single problem it's worthless?

pixl97 4y ago
You're very close to a breakthrough there... The first thing you have to accept is that 'critical thinking' is not a thing. There is only thinking. When you have that realization it is much easier to see when a person gets themselves in a situation that requires nonbiased, factual, information based processing to get out of they are exceptionally unlikely to do it as they lack the nonbiased factual data in the first place and likely have no realization it even exists. And that's not even the hard part. No, that's the easy part. The hard part is when there is a set of biased agents that keep feeding you bad information that keep you away from that thinking revolution that would allow you to escape the trap. Friends, politics, advertizing, these are all ever present agents that bias you to things like societal norms, to acceptable behaviors, that tell you what to think and not think about. And these are things that you also spread to other people. It's just part of being a society, a civilization.
- Zurrrrr 4y ago
  I'm guessing from your username you were born in 97. How are you that young and arrogant and condescending lol. There's no 'breakthrough' I'm close to or need to have. I said everything I needed to say and it remains accurate. You said a bunch of nonsense based on your own assumptions, and you're acting like you're trying to teach me something or some bullshit. The only thing you continue to prove with your comments is that you yourself could really benefit from learning how to think critically before you reply. I won't be replying again to you, it's simply not worth the effort. Cheers.
  - pixl97 4y ago
    Poor assumption, that was the year I picked this particular username, far far older than that, and seemingly very agist on your part too. If any problem involves "Everybody all of a sudden doing the right thing" the problem is not solvable if that is the only solution. May we both live in interesting times.

pixl97 4y ago

You're very close to a breakthrough there... The first thing you have to accept is that 'critical thinking' is not a thing. There is only thinking. When you have that realization it is much easier to see when a person gets themselves in a situation that requires nonbiased, factual, information based processing to get out of they are exceptionally unlikely to do it as they lack the nonbiased factual data in the first place and likely have no realization it even exists. And that's not even the hard part. No, that's the easy part. The hard part is when there is a set of biased agents that keep feeding you bad information that keep you away from that thinking revolution that would allow you to escape the trap. Friends, politics, advertizing, these are all ever present agents that bias you to things like societal norms, to acceptable behaviors, that tell you what to think and not think about. And these are things that you also spread to other people. It's just part of being a society, a civilization.

Zurrrrr 4y ago
I'm guessing from your username you were born in 97. How are you that young and arrogant and condescending lol. There's no 'breakthrough' I'm close to or need to have. I said everything I needed to say and it remains accurate. You said a bunch of nonsense based on your own assumptions, and you're acting like you're trying to teach me something or some bullshit. The only thing you continue to prove with your comments is that you yourself could really benefit from learning how to think critically before you reply. I won't be replying again to you, it's simply not worth the effort. Cheers.
- pixl97 4y ago
  Poor assumption, that was the year I picked this particular username, far far older than that, and seemingly very agist on your part too. If any problem involves "Everybody all of a sudden doing the right thing" the problem is not solvable if that is the only solution. May we both live in interesting times.