Wait it’s a learned trait?
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I don’t think this is genetic though. Critical thinking is something you should learn how to do. It’s a failure due to chronic underfunding in education.
I do agree with you that the people who can do it, often despair and withdraw from public discourse out of frustration. But they could be making babies like rabbits at the same time.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wait y’all get taught critical thinking?
I just hated all the teachers and instinctively challenge all authorities, from parents, to teachers, to school admins, police, and governments. Trust nobody.
They don’t teach critical thinking in schools.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Remember, critical thinking and trusting nobody are two very different things that don’t really have anything to do with one another.
Critical thinking means that you learn to figure out who (and what information) you can trust. If you are a critical thinker, you know how to vet sources, lean what marketing/political lingo actually means beyond the apparently obvious meaning of the words. You know how to find discrepancies between different bits of information and how to balance them and figure out what’s behind them.
It certainly doesn’t mean to not trust anything, because that means you are discarding actual information in favour of hallucinations.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Sounds like they thought you critical thinking by teaching you not to trust them.
XiELEd@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I am the same, but I got diagnosed with ODD lol
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
I learnt most in school, if i had to pin it down mostly in language classes (German, English) because of the literature i was exposed to and the discussions we had about current events, philosophy because its philosophy and art classes because of the teacher and interpretations of art pieces in context of the time they were created. Also my biology teacher who taught us to keep an open mind and a lot about the scientific method.
The important part were the teachers, who didn’t just let us memorize stuff, but encouraged us to ask questions.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant
… by our nature we are dumb, frightened, superstitious animals but given enough time, effort, energy and dedication we can overcome our natural instincts of fear and ignorance.
Unfortunately, it is so easy for us to fall back into our old animalistic ways.