• jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    How do you analyze and understand the way the world operates, what drives conflict, what causes change?

    • snailfacts [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      depends. I try to avoid religious beliefs and other bad ways of knowing

        • snailfacts [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          4 years ago

          I can’t wait for the anti-critical-thinking fad on the left to die out

            • snailfacts [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              considering the ways that an inference could be wrong, rejecting invalid ways of knowing

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Well those are things you don't believe. I'm asking what you do believe. What, for example, is a good way of knowing?

          • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            "Critical thinking" is not a framework. It needs rules, guidelines, to mean anything. Maybe a question will help:

            What motivates and maintains capitalism as a system? What is an effective method of resistance?

              • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                There are decades worth of books written on this topic and you have clearly read none of them.

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    Perhaps you should? I mean you claim to be all for critical thinking but refuse to engage with the literature you claim to refute.