Critical Thinking
Being foolishly gullible is not the same thing as being ignorant of the truth. Once a person knows the truth, s/he is no longer naïve or gullible. However, to get the truth is not an easy matter. The love of truth and wisdom is something that is becoming extinct in today’s world. It is being replaced with the love of education. Education is not to be confused with wisdom and/or intelligence.
Today, education means being able to regurgitate facts and sound impressive. The scary joke is that rare are the people who know how to process the massive amount of information they now have. It’s like giving children real guns to play with instead of water pistols.
People who sincerely think in a critical fashion are told they ‘analyze’ things too much and that they ‘worry’ too much. Do those lower-level thinkers ever stop to think that just maybe they don’t ‘analyze’ things enough and/or that what they’re perceiving and labeling as ‘worry’ is really ‘concern’ instead?
