And when we do, it seems we have been indoctrinated into thinking that critical thinking is the only kind to do. Furthermore, we think critical thinking means criticizing things.
We don't seem to know how to do creative thinking, because we did that as children and adults told us to stop it. Sir Ken Robinson has given a TED talk about how schools destroy creativity in children, and he is right on target with the points he makes.
We also don't know how to reason for ourselves. Look at all the conspiracy theories that abound, and stupid ideas like the world is flat that some people take seriously. Give me a break! When you get up to 30,000 feet in an airplane, you can see that the earth is round. Of course many of the people who think the earth is flat have never been off the ground, so I suppose they can be forgiven.
The point of this blog is that we need to learn to think for ourselves again. We need to learn how to re-imagine how we live. How we educate children. How to learn. How to have dialogues with each other without resorting to fighting. How to be civilized. And on and on.
I plan to explore these topics with you and hope to get you started on the road to discovering how exciting it can be to live in a world of possibility, rather than being stuck in a rut of same-old, same-old every day. A rut that leads nowhere but to an inevitable grave of boredom and discontent.
Moreover, I believe that the lack of meaning in our lives can be cured by learning how to think all over again. You were born thinking. You questioned everything. Why is this and why is that, momma? Let's do that again, although we have a wonderful resource today that we didn't have when I was a child. It's called the internet and search facilities. You can ask almost any question and have an immediate answer. It's fun. It's exciting, and it makes life richer.
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