The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking
Influencers and politicians use snappy cliches to get you on side – but you can fight fire with fire
Source: The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking | Psychology | The Guardian
May 22, 2024 @ 9:27 am
Got to love the liberals… issue a most timely warning concerning the mechanisms of socio-political mind traps in common service and then glibly expect you to stick your head into the very noose they just warned you about on behalf of one of their causes. Seriously, read the last paragraph of this article and tell me that isn’t what the author was trying to do. For example, from the author’s examples: a specific substance might be sufficiently low risk to go in general service as a vaccine, but the word vaccine does NOT, in and of itself, render a substance safe for the human critter. You would not be a liar if you said potassium cyanide is a great vaccine against any and every disease that troubles humanity… no one ever gets sick after being vaccinated with it. Dead,yes… but sick? No.