Just spit-balling but what if the painful retreat of critical thinking isn't just a function of bad schooling but also the chronic consumption of media produced by for-profit system whose primary objective isn't to inform but to entertain via schadenfreude-inducing confirmation?
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What if -- and stick with me here -- we don't need the MSM "to be objective" because that's a child's notion and virtue. What if instead we needed them to stop reinforcing the shallowest modes of thought possible in their efforts to capture the right demo to feed to advertisers.
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It's almost like there is an entire branch of science out there devoted to counting
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One that I would really like to take a virtual wrecking ball to once I'm done with my phd...
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