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"When one watches some
tired political hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar
phrases -- bestial
atrocities, iron
heel, bloodstained
tyranny, free peoples of the
world, stand shoulder to
shoulder -- one often has
a curious feeling that
one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling
which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when
the light catches the
speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes
behind them.
And this is not altogether fanciful.
A speaker
who uses that kind of phraseology has
gone some distance
toward turning himself into a machine.
The appropriate noises are
coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he
were choosing his words for himself.
If the speech he is making is one
that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost
unconscious of what he is
saying, as one is when one utters responses in church.
And this reduced
state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to
political conformity.
In our time,
political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Things like the continuance of British rule in
India, the Russian purges and
deportations, the dropping of the
atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments
which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the
professed aims of the political parties.
Thus political language has to
consist largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy
vagueness.
Defenseless villages are bombarded
from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the
cattle machine gunned, the
huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.
Millions of peasants
are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than
they can carry: this is called transfer of population or
rectification of
frontiers.
People are
imprisoned for years
without trial, or shot in the back
of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in
Arctic lumber camps: this is
called elimination of unreliable
elements." - George
Orwell
Critical thinking is
analytical thinking.
Critical thinking questions are
used to explore mental models.
Critical thinking is a process for actively
exploring situational reality.
Critical thinking involves being
skeptical:
identifying ambiguities and
assumptions;
identifying
contradictions;
deciding whether a
definition is adequate;
examining the logic leading to a
given conclusion;
judging whether a
statement is overly general;
critiquing the application of
principles and concepts;
and
determining
whether a statement made by authority is relevant.
"Thinking isn't rewarded because it
isn't wanted.
The idea of creating the need to
gain admission to an elite
university is to make sure bright students channel their energies in
approved ways.
Their study is just a test of
ambition,
endurance and
intelligence.
If a student puts up with such
study she/he will do whatever it takes.
The
expected result of such
Pavlovian training is the ideal
employee.
One
who will automatically think only along approved lines, going along with whatever is demanded of him to
get along. "- Raymond J. Rostan
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