I suspect that many people who went to college and got exposed a little to critical thinking have not as yet learned what a radical bunch of ideas it involves, and how it applies to almost everything:
– what the relationships between men and women should be about
– how to parent or educate kids
– what religion should be and should not be
– what is and is not unfair in the realm of economics and politics
– what of history is not just a little but rather very much biased?
– just maybe might there be a better way to organize our politics?
– could it be true that we really do need to revise our nation\u2019s Constitution?
– ditto our systems of justice and crime and punishment
– ditto our laws regarding race, religion, taxes, inheritance, minorities, homosexuality, and the list goes on
– what obligations might we have towards those who are not that good with words, language? Could it be that lawyers get away with too much on technicalities?
– how much of advertising and political campaigns appeal to the nonrational?
– do people yet know about the way a word is used, which words, semantics, have power?
– or about the existence of logical and historical fallacies and illusions?
– in science, how to be misleading with statistics? What are the tricks pharmaceutical industries who advertise their \u201cnew\u201d medicines use? Or other supposedly above-it-all scientific reports?
… and no doubt I\u2019ve left out a bunch of items. I welcome your emailing me and suggesting things.<\/p>\n
The Place of Non-Rationality<\/strong><\/p>\n Lest I be misinterpreted, let me note that in its proper place where it adds juice, myth, love, joy to the world, I value the nonrational greatly. I play with fantasy in the sections on this website called Foolin\u2019 Around or Zordak\u2019s Journal. I prize my playful wackiness and enjoy it in others. But in religion and politics and other places when folks are trying to argue about the way it \u201creally\u201d is, I shift gears into critical thinking. \u201cBut is it so?\u201d is my motto then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suspect that many people who went to college and got exposed a little to critical thinking have not as yet learned what a radical bunch of ideas it involves, and how it applies to almost everything: – what the relationships between men and women should be about – how to parent or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follies","category-literacy","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}