Critical Thinking Out of the Moral Matrix

 
Dear Ali and Colleagues.

"Critical thinking  a habit of  mind characterized by
comprehensive exploring  of issues, ideas, artifacts,
and events before accepting or  formulating  opinion
or conclusion."

Putting THAT in play...

(& play's the  crucial term here:
if you make me get serious I'll shrink
right up, roll over and try to please,
do it RIGHT know what I mean?)

.. I can't say I suspend CT for comprehensive exploring
of issues, ideas, artifacts & events.

           I shoot first, think later.

Ok Ok: I'm an uncritical thinker then. I admit it. No
wonder I'm so defensive about all this rubric assessing
and measureable-goals evaluating. It intimidates me. . 

Here's some critical uncritical thinking: antithesis
to critical thinking.  Maybe even call it pre-critical
                          thinking.

  The masks of myn lead lives of quiet perspiration.

          

“Neither logic nor sermons convince,” say Walt Whitman
 
I am sealed-in, boxed and bubbled—my directional navigational
algorithms (DNA) protected by my homeland security system so
that whatever you tell me—facts, stats, & data—that goes against
my Frame of Minding (my bias & belief, prejudice and conviction
parameters) will bounce of me like rice off a rhino. 

And I won’t fall for your sermons either. In fact they just sock me
further into my own solipsistic womb.
 
If what you say don’t cog with my homeostatic agenda, it will be
rejected by my natural selection system. 
 
Admitting this is better than denying and covering up.
In fact it is something like an immaculate conception
that I can even be aware of it.  Of what I just said.
A miracle. 
 
My mind is closed.
Knowing it,  allows
for some opening
I guess. Not knowing:
ignorance.

xxxooo, Sam