“critical thinking” genes
Uhhhhhh that’s like the entire basis and conclusion of the eugenics master race argument 😬
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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I don't think this is genetic though. Critical thinking is something you should learn how to do. It's a failure due to chronic underfunding in education.
I do agree with you that the people who can do it, often despair and withdraw from public discourse out of frustration. But they could be making babies like rabbits at the same time.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant
..... by our nature we are dumb, frightened, superstitious animals but given enough time, effort, energy and dedication we can overcome our natural instincts of fear and ignorance.
Unfortunately, it is so easy for us to fall back into our old animalistic ways.
Wait it's a learned trait?
Wait y'all get taught critical thinking?
I just hated all the teachers and instinctively challenge all authorities, from parents, to teachers, to school admins, police, and governments. Trust nobody.
They don't teach critical thinking in schools.
Remember, critical thinking and trusting nobody are two very different things that don't really have anything to do with one another.
Critical thinking means that you learn to figure out who (and what information) you can trust. If you are a critical thinker, you know how to vet sources, lean what marketing/political lingo actually means beyond the apparently obvious meaning of the words. You know how to find discrepancies between different bits of information and how to balance them and figure out what's behind them.
It certainly doesn't mean to not trust anything, because that means you are discarding actual information in favour of hallucinations.
Sounds like they thought you critical thinking by teaching you not to trust them.
I am the same, but I got diagnosed with ODD lol
I’d say you are confusing critical thinking with anxiety. Critical thinking is a deliberate exercise that I choose to engage in, and I might be able to do for a certain period of time. I’d suggest that critical thinking is an investment of time and energy to really understand an issue, how it’s framed, how to re-frame it. At the highest levels, critical thinking will eventually lead to where you stand on an issue, and what scenarios change your standing.
But anxiety is something I don’t mean to engage in, and might not be able to stop. I’d agree it’s a disruption of critical thinking. It’s either a response to stress, or perhaps a force is pushing you to anxiety to break down your OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) and render you less effective on the field you’re playing in.
No no. It's far easier an explaination.
I have critical thinking skills. I see the world is hot garbage. I see the ecconomy is not only harsh,but DESIGNED to be harsh. We live in a 2 income household society. You're EXPECTED to have a partner who makes a full time living, while you ALSO have a full time living.
I do not have a partner. I can barely afford rent. I somehow don't qualify for SNAP, even before the defunding. Which means most days I just don't eat.
Why the FUCK would I want children?
Meanwhile, if I didn't have critical thinking skills, I might just go out, fuck a bunch of women. Be dumb enough to not wear condoms, and now have 18 different kids with 23 different women. Obviously I'd be an absentee father in these kids lives. And the women willing to have sex with that version of me wouldn't be very bright either.
The end result is the dumb version of me would have dumb kids with dumb women.
The smart version of me doesn't have, and isn't planning on having kids.
This is such a good answer and I hate that it's true.
I also am a one income household and also am no stranger to having to choose "rent or groceries" on a regular basis. I hate that you can't get food assistance unless you make minimum wage, but where I live they release analysis every year that a single adult needs to make at least 3x minimum wage just to be able to afford to exist with a one bedroom apartment at market rates and that's without having extra money for savings, hobbies, or going out.
I have fucked up so many things in my life but I will always be eternally grateful that I never fucked up and got pregnant.
Literally the intro to Idiocracy.
Critical thinking isn’t genetic.
Also critical thinking is not equivalent with overthinking.
Evidence that may contradict your claim is that the average worldwide IQ increases by 3 points every 10 years. So the species appears to slowly be getting smarter. Dumbness may just be more noteworthy in our culture.
The upward trend by now has reversed