Rodney,
Critical thinking skills are a laudable ideal. However, I do not see evidence that we are actually able to execute them to any significant degree. I see the disorder in my own mind and I see the swirl of nonsense that fills it. I can observe the evidence of the detritus of billions and billions of media-induced messages, cultural programming, early religious indoctrination, paranoid parental admonition, the silly mindsets and vernacular of peers, etc.
I simply do not see evidence that the normative individual is actually able to execute the purgative level of critical thinking skills that would be necessary to eliminate the effects of environmental mental pollutants.
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