Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein challenged conflicting narratives circulating about Tyler Robinson by obtaining online chats and speaking with a childhood friend of the 22-year-old man accused of assassinating far-right activist Charlie Kirk.
Shocking that a terminally online 22 year old doesn’t have a consistent ideology.
I saw a comment on instagram from someone saying Charlie Kirk had had some “powerful comments” in his videos. Checked the profile and there was a ton of pro-environment, anti-cop content. Most people don’t think super hard about their political ideology.
Most people don’t think super hard about their political ideology.
This is perhaps the most important insight one can have when it comes to entertaining the ‘fun’ discussions on christmas dinner. Both in constructing an argument and maintaining healthy relationships.
People really cling to being a “good” person. And not thinking can serve as a shield to maintain this; at least within one’s own self-image.
It’s not so much that, as Wrong Thinking. As humans, we are supposed to employ Critical Thinking, but it isn’t instinctual, we have to learn it. Just as importantly, we have to hone our Critical Thinking Skills, and use them constantly. That’s how humans are supposed to think.
But if your education didn’t include solid Critical Thinking Skills training, then you have a major hole in your ability to process society. That intellectual vacuum wants to be filled by something. Some people don’t fill it with anything, and they bounce around making one stupid decision after another. Others fall under the spell of propaganda, which Critical Thinking Skills are particularly successful at resisting, and become radicalized in some way, such as MAGA, or ISIS.
Conservatives have been historically hostile at Critical Thinking Skills curriculum in schools. The Texas Republican Party even once put it in their official platform, explicitly stating that they oppose the teaching Critical Thinking Skills. Imagine creating an official policy that states that they oppose the teaching of PROPER, EFFECTIVE THINKING?
The MAGAs are literally creating a system to deliberately make their constituents more stupid, and vulnerable to manipulation. It’s hard to imagine anything more diabolical than that.
Critical thinking is never instinctual, it is a mode that has to be consciously engaged and maintained and the moment we let it drop then bias and heuristics take over.
Maybe that’s more social conditioning than essential characteristic, but studies show that it is a universal condition regardless. People who have been trained the most in critical thinking are actually more likely to let heuristics take over their decision making. See Dan Kahneman’s work on behavioral economics.
Shocking that a terminally online 22 year old doesn’t have a consistent ideology.
I saw a comment on instagram from someone saying Charlie Kirk had had some “powerful comments” in his videos. Checked the profile and there was a ton of pro-environment, anti-cop content. Most people don’t think super hard about their political ideology.
This is perhaps the most important insight one can have when it comes to entertaining the ‘fun’ discussions on christmas dinner. Both in constructing an argument and maintaining healthy relationships.
People really cling to being a “good” person. And not thinking can serve as a shield to maintain this; at least within one’s own self-image.
“not thinking”
It’s not so much that, as Wrong Thinking. As humans, we are supposed to employ Critical Thinking, but it isn’t instinctual, we have to learn it. Just as importantly, we have to hone our Critical Thinking Skills, and use them constantly. That’s how humans are supposed to think.
But if your education didn’t include solid Critical Thinking Skills training, then you have a major hole in your ability to process society. That intellectual vacuum wants to be filled by something. Some people don’t fill it with anything, and they bounce around making one stupid decision after another. Others fall under the spell of propaganda, which Critical Thinking Skills are particularly successful at resisting, and become radicalized in some way, such as MAGA, or ISIS.
Conservatives have been historically hostile at Critical Thinking Skills curriculum in schools. The Texas Republican Party even once put it in their official platform, explicitly stating that they oppose the teaching Critical Thinking Skills. Imagine creating an official policy that states that they oppose the teaching of PROPER, EFFECTIVE THINKING?
The MAGAs are literally creating a system to deliberately make their constituents more stupid, and vulnerable to manipulation. It’s hard to imagine anything more diabolical than that.
Critical thinking is never instinctual, it is a mode that has to be consciously engaged and maintained and the moment we let it drop then bias and heuristics take over.
Maybe that’s more social conditioning than essential characteristic, but studies show that it is a universal condition regardless. People who have been trained the most in critical thinking are actually more likely to let heuristics take over their decision making. See Dan Kahneman’s work on behavioral economics.