Monday, July 31, 2006

Big Words are Useless

FOR Critical Thinkers (criticalthinkers.org)

What did either of them want to say?

1) It’s the question of how intelligence may inform action, and how action may bear the fruit of increased insight into meaning: a clear view of the values that are worthwhile and of the means by which they are to be made secure in experienced objects. Construction of ideals in general and their sentimental glorification are easy; the responsivilities both of studious thought and of action are shirked.

2)What?! Glib gibberish exuding pseudo-truths in witty yet empty metaphors, connected by abstruse references to common things, convoluted happily into a stream of pretty words bearing no relevance to previous posts. Then end the stream of twisted thought with a drive-by trite sentiment and shirk any real confrontation or exposition. Bon voyage! Look out! Don't forget to cover your mouth when you yawn!

Is critical thinking getting to be that snobbish?

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