Critical Thinking: It’s Not Just Important, It’s Essential – Keeping It Real

The systemic superficiality of the corporate power elite of the US and its allies is no accident. It is intentional. A people who are both informed and think critically cannot easily be controlled or manipulated. Thus, it is of paramount importance to the corporate so-called news media to ensure that the information it presents to the public remains both superficial and often, highly inaccurate.

Despite the enormous power and influence of the corporate power elite and their concomitant “news and information” media, active critical thinkers can, should and often do pose a major problem for those who utilize superficial and inaccurate information to manipulate and control the majority of people. It is increasingly crucial for people to be discerning and disdainful of accepting superficial information as being truth or fact.

Change, if it is real, is not merely superficial. Likewise, critical thinking, if it is real, is precisely the opposite of superficiality. Thus, those who claim to represent real “change” but deprecate structural / systemic change are actually using rhetorical superficiality in an attempt to mask the same old manipulation of the people. In other words, they are attempting to fool the people.