The End Of Critical Thinking?

[geowizard]

I found a very interesting video that I would like to share on "critical Thinking!

It's a topic worthy of discussion on TN.

The End Of Critical Thinking And Rise Of Collective Stupidity - Carlo Cipolla


- Gewizard

 

[3RDLIFE]

Critical thinking is too relative to quantity.
Collective stupidity is the norm.
Brief periods of apparent sanity are transient.

 

[Carl-NC]

For a video critical of AI, it was obviously made by AI. That aside, it makes excellent points. Many many years ago I would listen to a radio personality who was vocally alluring but often wrong in the details of the topics of discussion. People who did not recognize these errors in arguments called themselves "dittoheads," which I found to be a hilarious self-deprecating admission that they could not think for themselves. The chairs in an echo chamber are exceptionally comfortable, and though the radio personality is gone, social media has created a vastly larger echo chamber that can hold far more head-nodders than ever before.

I have long wished for a required high school class on critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, the most influential people prefer head-nodders to thinkers and would never allow it.

 

[Crow]

You cannot control the puppet show of the masses if you let the masses use critical thinking. The education system is designed to make the masses slaves to the narrative set by the masters who pull the strings.

I cut my strings years ago.

Crow

 

[djackson7348]

Unfortunately, today's educational system leans more towards the "Crippled Thinking" concept. The current you're a victim, I'm a victim, we're all victims and everybody owes us.

 

[newnan man]

New York City lowered the score needed to pass the teaching examination. Only 40% of minority applicants passed so the lowered the passing score. Now you can in New York officially be a "dumb" teacher.

 

[djackson7348]

New York City lowered the score needed to pass the teaching examination. Only 40% of minority applicants passed so the lowered the passing score. Now you can in New York officially be a "dumb" teacher.

And the end result is what you see in NYC today.

 

[geowizard]

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