Jo Swinson lost her seat.
The rest is
Jo Swinson lost her seat.
The rest is
This country has lost its fucking mind.
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I’m trying to work out whether people have lost the ability to think critically or whether they never had it and it’s just easier to exploit in the era of social media.
Recently a friend on FB posted something about the kid sleeping on coats in hospital.
Someone commented “It’s a set up”.
No evidence presented, nothing to back up the assertion.
When he was asked for some evidence he still didn’t present any.
So God alone knows how he came to that opinion but it wasn’t based on any facts or evidence.
We are living in an era where people just don’t care about facts or what’s true.
It’s how we end up with a Flat Earth Society in the 21st Century or an anti-vax movement.
People were refusing to get their children vaccinated because of one report linking MMR to autism.
One report which was widely and quickly discredited it.
But the papers lost their collective shit about it, splashed it all over their front pages and now we have a load of kids dying of measles. It’s all completely fucked.
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Corbyn OUT!
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The second one, definitely. Schools do a great job of teaching you what to think, but they're not so great at teaching you how to think - that stuff maybe comes later, at uni, and even then the kind of critical thinking that we're talking about will probably only be pushed in more academic subjects that include theory elements. Other than that, you just kind of have to figure it out for yourself, and sadly a lot of people never do.
Tbh, I'm not even sure a lot of people want to? Searching out the truth and maybe having to challenge your beliefs means change, and change is hard. Ignorance, on the other hand, is bliss.
There's a much-needed missing subject on the national curriculum, imo - some kind of general life skills class, that should include stuff like this (amongst many, many other useful things that you need to know in order to take care of yourself and be a decent human being).