been noticing a pattern with my brain issues that now when I'm trying to manually critically think people keep insulting me and dismissing me by saying I'm overthinking...

maybe that's why nobody critically thinks anymore. just gets hammered out as "yeah nobody wants to hear that"

well I'm sorry I can't have Internet thoughts inside my own head due to the brain damage. it helps me to talk it out. annoying. and you could contribute to the discussion by actually contributing. who are you to say I don't want to be having this thinking?

I had the same problem at my old job that I was overthinking problems. But it turns out, the manager did not want us to question our terrible data privacy practices and our lack of forward thinking lol

Please don’t conflate critical thinking with random ideas, especially dumb ones which go against established knowledge and typically adopted by dumb conspiracy theorists.

This is the typical rhetoric of idiots like flat earthers.

"People don’t use critical thinking anymore. No one is questioning the globe model."

Bla bla bla. Yeah, that‘s not critical thinking, you are just an idiot who doesn’t know how science works.

(to make it clear, I mean the general flatearther-you, not you in specific)

> it helps me to talk it out. annoying. and you could contribute to the discussion by actually contributing. who are you to say I don't want to be having this thinking?

Have you tried rubber duck debugging? :p

@Lensflare idk why you think rhetoric like that that insults me as a person would be convincing or swaying to me

you fail to understand something yet you criticize it. that doesn't sound like critical thinking to me

@jestdotty The only thing that I fail to understand is your last comment.

@Lensflare someone who follows established ideas lacks critical thinking in thinking past those ideas

it's not hard... established ideas are basically decades old. it takes a long time for something to get established

the hard part about critical thinking is then convincing people who like established ideas to grow past the established ideas. that's why academia suffers from so much entrenched "this is just the way we do things here". which is fine and that's how institutions protect themselves and survive. but you can't use them as the authority on truth. you can use them as an introduction to strongholds on basic subjects though and I view them to serve that function. but I don't view their limits as valid. that's not the point of them. we're meant to grow past their knowledge base and create our own, then come back full circle with good arguments and further the slow institutions. that's how accumulated societal knowledge flows, cycles and society benefits. they're not authorities

@jestdotty bullshit. If you critically think about established scientific ideas, you realize that they are established for a very good reason. Because they explain the world better than any other idea.

Just coming up with some random bullshit just because you feel like a revolutionary rebel doesn’t make it critical thinking.

Do you really think that flat earthers arrived at their stupid idea of a flat earth by thinking critically?

I remember "talking" to code a while back, and while boss (different company was explaining to me) I said "explain yourself" or something similar, took me 5 minutes to realise why he just walked away...

@BordedDev WHY DID HE WALK AWAY AAAA