Putting the "Critical" in Critical Thinking

[terrarising]

This video isn't bad, Snarf. Good explanation on what critical thinking really is.

[verstwo2]

good video snarf, I couldn't agree more and I have a similar experience with friends deep into conspiracy theories.  However you're wrong about one thing that conspiracy theories are uniquely American. They may be most popular in the US but they are international in scope - see the origins of the 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', the jews blood libel' and other conspiracy theories though out history....they usually have religious and culturally xenophobic roots. Very interesting actually.

[Quag7]

Also, sorry to clog up your comments here, but I also suggest that you are definitely the guy to build windmills.

Please, build them...so that we can laugh at all the people who take pride in charging them.

Clean energy is just, y'know, a side benefit.

[SkeptikSnarf]

"you are definitely the guy to build windmills."

that's definitely one job i am looking at. countdown to may and employment

[Quag7]

Just be careful man, because you know...that the wind, the whipping air currents of the plains...

...is socialist. That's right. You know who liked the wind?

Karl Marx.

It's true.

Look it up.

:)

[Quag7]

Generally speaking, as to the Right:

* They regard open-mindedness as weak, effeminate, and wishy-washy

* Using the mechanisms most familiar to them, their views on secular politics become held by their "religious" circuits - the less interesting part of this is the attendant dogmatism. The more interesting point is that opposing positions are dealt with by the "heresy" circuits, wherein opposing views become equivalent to "satanic" (they will deny this, but witness the McCarthy witch hunts).

[Quag7]

* Critical thinking is viewed as a kind of equivocation. Critical thinking, they believe, is for weak-kneed students, hippies, and fruits - a privilege of the spoiled, soft middle class while the right does heavy lifting.

The Jews have the concept of the Schlmiel and Schlemozzle.

A better concept here is the conservative as charging rhino who causes an avalanche which kills everyone, and the critical thinker as the one who feebly urges the rhino to stop because he will cause an avalanche.

[PrinceBishop3]

Because vids like yours move and inspire me and vids on fox repulse me. Merry Christmas my friend.

[Eopyk]

Thinking critical is an art not all master it..

All love from me Jasmine

[NwZ2]

those questions of "you might be left if" are things that can be attributed to ALL sides of the political spectrum.

Environmental conservation can easily be a conservative ideology: "Don't shit in the place where you sleep", or treating everyone equally (without discrimination)? See the declaration of independence/the constitution.

These illusionary "dichotomies" between the political ideologies are nothing more than propaganda tools to blind people to how much they really are like each other.

[CousinoMacul]

My opinion on critical thinking is exactly what you were saying at the begining of this video. Critical thinking is an acquired skill; it takes hard work to do; it takes hard work to maintain; and even the best and most experienced critical thinkers can slip and think uncritically if they're not ever vigilant.

[obamadidit2008]

how many folks are critical (objective) thinkers in america today?

[dieyou2000]

Precisely 2,874.