TOPIC: 10 Free Lectures on Critical Thinking

Do most people today lack critical thinking skills? It seems that among the general population, not just in schools, society has been dumbed down, almost as if it were part of some agenda. We've become reactive instead of proactive. So what can we do to remedy the situation?

Here's some ideas

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10 Free Lectures on Critical Thinking

WM wrote:
Critical Theory / Critical Thinking sounds very helpful however it is actually the foundation of introducing Marxism to the youth.

Max Horkheimer one of the leading Jews behind the Frankfurt School was a huge proponent of Critical Thinking / Critical Theory

His team designed it for one purpose only.

To induce a mass of people to criticize the west and its foundational institutions until they were devoid of influence.

The entire point is to criticize the west until it is entirely destroyed , chipping away at REASON and LOGIC until the meaning of such things is lost entirely in a sea of " self reflection "

You will get to the really juicy material right about when they introduce Critical Race Theory

Also when you are asked to.justify your moral perceptions.

They will reduce your morals to relativism

You will become a moral relativist , the greatest example being the modern past time.of excusing the barbarity with which some.cultures treat each other and outsiders because : they are from a different culture and to question their.morals is bigoted

Critical Thinking is a Trojan Horse

Critical Thinking is also how you end up listening to the likes of Sadiq Khan the Mayor of London say that a billboard with a fit and beautiful white woman in a bikini is " offensive " and yet the same pratt of a man has NOTHING to say critically about slicing the genitals of Muslim.girls so they cannot enjoy sex as adults

Its how you end up with morbidly obese women on billboards

Because moral relativism says that all body types are beautiful

This is clearly not the case but here we are thanks to Critical.Thinking and the induced moral relativism it gives birth to

The cherry on top of Critical Theory is however Critical Race Theory

That is the Critical Theory that ALL of the worlds problems stem from White people being in position of power

Lovely idea ey ?

Critical Thinking / Critical Theory gave birth to Intersectionality

Which is the Marxists last bastion of hope to subvert and destroy the white mans achievements

It all starts off so relaxed sounding " we are just having a philosophical discussion here "

And it results in radical feminism / the morbidly obese running health departments / homosexuals.being made.Ministers of Children

Somalian Refugees attempting to.dictate what " democracy " is to.people.of European descent

I could go on .....

Critical Thinking is how you end up with a picture of four African girls and the headline

" These girls are Irish "

No , they are not " Irish " at all but thanks to the Jewish led Critical Thinking / Critical Theory moral relativism here we are

Its how we ended up with a list of pronouns and Jewish led " hate speech " laws

I will bet you cannot find ONE University with a course on deconstructing Jewishness

But you can find a thousand that will teach you to " deconstruct whiteness "

I have a theory Ive been working on for some.time

Its called the Theory of the Rope and its a cliff hanger

WM wrote:
Who is "we"?

Manipulative texts always use the term "we". True selfthinkers speak and write for themselves and don't fall for traps / trojan horses.

Depending on where you're applying the skill, i.e; medicine, law, the sciences etc. there's more than one definition for critical thinking.

Years before the Frankfurt school and Marxism were even conceived ...

Critical thinking teaches a person how to reason and think logically, whereas critical theory is a sociological theory. They're not the same discipline. If anything critical theorists draw on the principles and methods of critical thinking to support their arguments.

WM wrote:
See the reference to Socrates escaping prison as the " earliest example " of critical thinking !

Yes let the prisoners go , another fine result of critical thinking

exilium wrote:
Who is the free thinker and what is the power structure?

MrAnderson wrote:
Should Socrates have escaped, why did he refuse?

Why has the World Economic Forum placed an emphasis on Critical Thinking / Theory as a means of guiding the minds of men through the 4th Industrial Revolution ?

I followed the link in the OP and read the above in an introduction to the course material.

MrAnderson wrote:
Could you provide a link?

WM wrote:
Its the same one you provided but further in

philosophy.hku.hk/think/critical/ct.php

§2. The future of critical thinking
In January 2016, the World Economic Forum issued a report "The Future of Jobs". It says:

The Future of Jobs 2016 pdf

Search results for 'critical theory' on the World Economic Forum site. I only skimmed through the first couple of pages, and wasn't able to find anything on critical theory. I don't know, maybe you'll have better luck.

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MrAnderson wrote:
"In the Crito, Socrates is in prison awaiting execution for impiety and corrupting the youth. His impiety was judged to be a matter of questioning and possibly disbelieving the traditional gods, and his corrupting the youth was a matter of his teaching them to do the same. "
www.stephenhicks.org/2016/09/14/socrates-should-he-have-escaped-prison/

G'day MrAnderson.

Are you stating that you believe Socrates should have been teaching the youth to believe in "the traditional gods" as those in authority wanted him to do, in other words bowing to state policy whether it is true or not?

I AM ALL I AM wrote:
I think Socrates chose death as a means of immortalizing himself.

He was clearly attempting to become a martyr , he knew he had given the state no choice but to silence him.

His death is still being discussed today. His lifes work still has an influence thousands of years later.

The manner in which a man faces death can change the course of history to a far greater degree than the manner in which he chooses to live.

Lets take Edward Snowden as an example.

There is a man in a similar position to.Socrates. He has reasoned his way into a position where he finds himself at odds with the state and feels.compelled to share his findings.

Snowden chose to flee when at the height of his opposition to the State and will subsequently fade into obscurity and become a footnote

Had he chosen to face the state and been tried and executed , his death would have etched his name into stone for eternity

This is what Socrates knew , it was not a question of was the states decision to execute him just because the state rarely has a just reason for executing its own

It was a question IMO of how to ensure we would still be discussing Socrates today

Feel free to disagree with me on the Snowden analogy or anything else Ive said

But consider that had Snowden chosen trial and execution , his lifes work would be of more value to those who wish to challenge the state

And there will all ways be such people because no state can remove the spark of the creator from man , not even through execution

Cobblers, his death, or 'martyrdom' if you like would have been airbrushed away and lost among the 5 minute attention span of dumb, young fuckwits whose only knowledge comes from social media and 2 bob University tutors. Not real world, real time experience.
Good, I'm happy to know you young twats are going to reap what you sow.
Suck it up buttercup. You lose. Forever.

Lux Interior wrote:
Good job nobody asked for a morale boost ey