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Are too many Americans lacking critical thinking skills?

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” - Unknown

Vince Lombardi  - What the hell's going on out here! -America that is...

Posted - August 7, 2019
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  • 46117

    How is Beans doing? 

    America is like an entitled Rich kid in an adult body. America should KNOW better by now, but America doesn't.  America drank the Kool-Aide of forgetfulness and great drunkenness, and now is in a boatload of trouble with Donald Trump at the helm.  America was a spoiled rich kid who had a good body but did not take care of it. It grew fat and lazy and now with TRUMP?  America has cancer.  Trump is a malignant narcissist and he is spreading his racist filth nationwide with people IN AMERICA, actual American citizens take his stand. They take it against all manner of opposition in the form of pictures of kids in cages (FAKE NEWS) videos of his speeches, FAKE FAKE FAKE and HE DIDN"T MEANT THAT.  And finally going to a rally up close and personal and getting punched in the face by a Trump rally moron.  Half your age.  I lied.  ONE THIRD your age.  

     

    America is getting what America deserves and if America doesn't wake up in a year there will be no more America to worry about.  Sieg Heil.


    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 9, 2019 10:25 AM MDT
      August 8, 2019 12:26 AM MDT
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  • 2658
    Yes-Yes -, all of what you posted.

    How am I doing? The Grim Reaper tried to stick a fork in me thinking I was done. - not yet - Fall seven times, stand up eight ... This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at August 9, 2019 10:25 AM MDT
      August 9, 2019 9:13 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Perhaps less lacking said skills than abdicating their use. 
      August 8, 2019 4:33 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    You know the old adage, "Use it or lose it."  I believe we're losing it.  The more technology we have that thinks for us, the less we think for ourselves.  Just observe how many people are walking around glued to their iPhones with absolutely no situational awareness.  They are like Zombies.  
      August 8, 2019 8:51 AM MDT
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  • 2658
    fo shizzle
      August 9, 2019 9:20 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    Guessing that's true.
    Thinking skills start as early as maths in primary school,
    learning set theory,
    the logic of language,
    seeing cause and effect in science,
    understanding how theory, experiment and analysis of results works...
    We're literally given it in our public education.

    But using the mind is exactly the same as using a muscle.
    Some people feel more comfortable when they avoid exercise.
      August 8, 2019 9:58 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Or let someone else do it for them, as Jane says.  This post was edited by Don Barzini at August 9, 2019 9:33 AM MDT
      August 9, 2019 4:23 AM MDT
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  • 11087
    Yes. We let the others do our thinking for us. 'News' programs spend more time interpreting the news than they do reporting the facts. Just as our president reacts to what he sees on his favorite network, others (even on this site) react to what they are told on their news outlet of choice. If I watch the same story on Fox and then on CNN, it is like living in two different countries.
      August 8, 2019 8:10 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    Suggested for anyone who would like to increase their critical thinking skills:

    Cottrell, S., 2017, "Critical Thinking Skills: effective analysis, argument and reflection", 10th ed., Macmillian International, ISBN 978-1-137-55050-7

    Grayling, A. C., 2006, "The Heart of Things: applying philosophy to the 21st Century", Phoenix press, UK, ISBN 978-0-7538-1941-8

    Peter Singer, "Practical Ethics".
      August 8, 2019 9:53 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Suggested for anyone who would like to increase their critical thinking skills:

    Cottrell, S., 2017, "Critical Thinking Skills: effective analysis, argument and reflection", 10th ed., Macmillian International, ISBN 978-1-137-55050-7

    Grayling, A. C., 2006, "The Heart of Things: applying philosophy to the 21st Century", Phoenix press, UK, ISBN 978-0-7538-1941-8

    Peter Singer, "Practical Ethics".
      August 8, 2019 9:53 PM MDT
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  • 2658
    Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.


    Common Sense eh!?
      August 9, 2019 9:32 AM MDT
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