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Critical Thinking

 I'm glad you brought that up. It's a teen we liked to bandy about. I don't use it much anymore. It's been weaponzized, and I'm developing an aversion to the use if weaponzized language. It's not useful in any positive sense. I'm sure it peppers my own speech still without me realizing it, but I'm trying to train myself to recognize it.

I don't think someone who's truly a critical thinker ever finds a place to land, rarely finds a group.

I think it's safe to say you've ceased to be a critical thinker when your default for every incident is the alternative or least popular explanation. 

You're not a critical thinker when any professional who agrees with what you've decided is truth automatically has cred and becomes the authority in your book.

You're not a critical thinker when you dismiss out of hand or ignore what doesn't square with your perspective and actively search for and elevate what does.

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