Neurotypical people barely think. They conduct rituals.
Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes.
Submitted 17 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Comments
Wigners_friend@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Just see all the RF Engineers with black candles and pentagram before testing stuff in the dark spikey room.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Nah, I think people that have critical thinking skills are not afraid of being wrong, aka their own curiosity and growth. The rest of the world wants simple dichotomous logic and is incapable of constructive engagement. They are simply too narcissistic to process abstract thinking and are looking for any excuse to rot in their dystopian existence.
I see things very different than most people in terms a depth of nuance and abstract approach. I have no idea how to communicate nicely; to tell you what you want to hear. Put me in a back office of a business, and my ideas will steer the company strongly. Just don’t ask me to implement them or deal with people directly. I have a knack for patterns and logic, and I can explain them, but how I figure them out is deeply unconventional, and I am hard for anyone to follow, unless they have at least marginal abstractive logic skills. Fortunately, I have gone through rigorous psychological testing with the legal case for the crash that disabled me and I can prove I’m far above average. (The stupid testing was $10k, and he and his team were trying to find impairment of some kind).
Most people seem extremely illogical to me, but no one wants to hear that, and certainly not when such a thing is hard to follow, or crosses spaces where conventions are inadequate or flat out wrong. Dogmas are only questioned from within. Ego and narcissism clutch dogmas tightly. We live in an era of strong dogmatism. Strong dogmatism leads to cognitive dissonance. On cultural scales this is only resolved by mass conflict. You can’t fix stupid in anyone other than yourself
s@piefed.world 16 hours ago
“critical thinking” genes
Uhhhhhh that’s like the entire basis and conclusion of the eugenics master race argument 😬
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
No no. It’s far easier an explaination.
I have critical thinking skills. I see the world is hot garbage. I see the ecconomy is not only harsh,but DESIGNED to be harsh. We live in a 2 income household society. You’re EXPECTED to have a partner who makes a full time living, while you ALSO have a full time living.
I do not have a partner. I can barely afford rent. I somehow don’t qualify for SNAP, even before the defunding. Which means most days I just don’t eat.
Why the FUCK would I want children?
Meanwhile, if I didn’t have critical thinking skills, I might just go out, fuck a bunch of women. Be dumb enough to not wear condoms, and now have 18 different kids with 23 different women. Obviously I’d be an absentee father in these kids lives. And the women willing to have sex with that version of me wouldn’t be very bright either.
The end result is the dumb version of me would have dumb kids with dumb women.
The smart version of me doesn’t have, and isn’t planning on having kids.
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
This is such a good answer and I hate that it’s true.
I also am a one income household and also am no stranger to having to choose “rent or groceries” on a regular basis. I hate that you can’t get food assistance unless you make minimum wage, but where I live they release analysis every year that a single adult needs to make at least 3x minimum wage just to be able to afford to exist with a one bedroom apartment at market rates and that’s without having extra money for savings, hobbies, or going out.
I have fucked up so many things in my life but I will always be eternally grateful that I never fucked up and got pregnant.
13igTyme@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Literally the intro to Idiocracy.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Are you overthinking the whole concept of overthinking…
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Maybe they just realize having kids is hard.
fixmycode@feddit.cl 3 hours ago
it’s simple thermodynamics. critical thinking requires energy, calories that you’d rather use surviving. critical thinkers appear when their needs are externally covered because they have disposable energy.
pathwonder@kopitalk.net 16 hours ago
I’d say you are confusing critical thinking with anxiety. Critical thinking is a deliberate exercise that I choose to engage in, and I might be able to do for a certain period of time. I’d suggest that critical thinking is an investment of time and energy to really understand an issue, how it’s framed, how to re-frame it. At the highest levels, critical thinking will eventually lead to where you stand on an issue, and what scenarios change your standing.
But anxiety is something I don’t mean to engage in, and might not be able to stop. I’d agree it’s a disruption of critical thinking. It’s either a response to stress, or perhaps a force is pushing you to anxiety to break down your OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) and render you less effective on the field you’re playing in.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Critical thinking isn’t genetic.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Also critical thinking is not equivalent with overthinking.
qualia@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Evidence that may contradict your claim is that the average worldwide IQ increases by 3 points every 10 years. So the species appears to slowly be getting smarter. Dumbness may just be more noteworthy in our culture.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
I presume you’re talking about the Flynn effect. Posts like these are usually based in Western Anglo-sphere nations, where the society as a whole is clearly getting dumber. Not shaming OP though - I feel all of this too as a USAmerican.
For the majority of the world, the last several decades have centered on expanding schooling of children, supporting women (half the population) in education, promoting small businesses of women, supporting small businesses in undeserved areas, and reversing the damage of colonialism.
The majority of the world has been steadily growing more intelligent as access to education has increased, and medical access has mitigated the toll of life on people. Undoubtedly, the USA and UK and many EU nations has been growing stupider, and supposedly in 2024 the rate had slowed to 1.2 IQ points per decade. It may also be that Western systems favor dumber people, but coming from the USA, I don’t think that those sociopolitical systems changed recently.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
The upward trend by now has reversed
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 17 hours 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 hours 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.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Wait it’s a learned trait?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
Yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking#Teaching_critical_thinking