1 thought on “PROGRESSIVE RADIO: “The Death of Critical Thinking in America” / Ring of Fire / Mike Papantonio”

1. Like the weather, everyone talks about “critical thinking” these days but few do anything about it. Too often critical thinking today means applying deep analysis and contradicting data points to opposing ideas while only superficially analyzing weak points in our own arguments. Argumentation today betrays emotional biases on both sides. Real critical thinking has always been rare but it is a beautiful and liberating experience when its does occur.

   I thought President Obama identified the real enemy of critical thinking today — and the root cause of our political dysfunction — to our society’s growing tendency to assume maximalist positions. And while he was talking primarily about political maximalism, it can be seen everywhere in our social discourse.

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