Slack-jawed pundits with vaguely angry stares trying to pretend there's more behind their eyeballs than the sound of a potato slowly rotating in a microwave?
Wait, no, Tucker went to Russia.
Wait, no, Tucker went to Russia.
Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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Oh yeah, the microwave noise. That reminds me.
There was an interesting article an age back that detailed that 50% (and up!) of the population does not host an inner monologue. I wanna see a venn diagram of those without thoughts, and republican voters.
There was an interesting article an age back that detailed that 50% (and up!) of the population does not host an inner monologue. I wanna see a venn diagram of those without thoughts, and republican voters.
Only 30–50% of People Have an Internal Monologue.
Did you read this title with your own voice in your head? If not, I have some serious questions about you.
Almost envy them. My inner monologue won't shut up, even when I want it to...
Who said that? I just want to know what the overlap between the two groups are. Just because you don't have... thoughts... doesn't mean you don't deserve to have rights: it means we need to retool our education and social systems to account for that fact and start teaching people critical thinking from day 1.
I wonder what it's like to have an inner monologue. I've got an inner dialogue and none of them ever shut up.
Nothing about that Medium article suggested you can just fix someone's lack of an inner monologue through education, any more than you could cure Down Syndrome.
I imagine it's quite liberating to have no inner monologue. Sometimes I think you can even tell by looking at someone's face if there are any wheels turning behind their eyes.
Or by their red hats.
I feel bad for fans of teams like the Philadelphia Phillies who have traditionally had primarily red caps.
It's not education: it's reflex training. When you drill into someone how to react to a situation over and over and over and over again: they will eventually react the way you trained them. That's what you do in this case, but with critical thinking skills. It's doesn't suddenly give them thoughts: but it makes them aware of context and question the event as they ******* well should. Idiot proofing idiots, as it were.
You start it young for everyone, and repeat through the entirety of the shared childhood experience.
FB friend:
Critical thinking and reflex are mutually exclusive.
Not when the reflex is to think critically. It's the same principal as learning how to not panic.
the GOP is ready to march two by two up the ass of their golden Ark.
I deny that such a thing exists.
Thinking critically requires conciousness. It cannot be done by reflex. Even in your example, one must be taught to supress the reflex to panic. It is not a reflex not to panic.
So you're saying that you actually can LEARN how to not panic? So why can't you hijack the methodology to LEARN how to think critically? Critical thinking skills are actually taught. It's a key process in LEARNING to be an investigator, a reporter, an engineer and a myriad of other jobs and skills. Education reform experts have been screaming for YEARS that we need to teach children to think critically, and how to vet their information sources.
Teach it young, teach it to everyone, teach it consistently, and everyone will have critical thinking skills and the majority will use them as reflex. You teach everyone to replace the knee jerk outrage reactions with reasoned thought and deliberate consideration, and the greater volume of people will replace the rage with critical thought.