The Critical Thinker’s Manifesto
One. Literacy is taking the red pill over the blue pill, which means you choose to be a critical thinker, not an obedient, mindless consumer.
Two. Literacy is language plus critical thinking.
Three. In Defense of Being Alone: Critical thinking requires solitude in general and solitary reading specifically. You need to quote Sherry Turkle and Louis C.K.
Four. Critical thinking repels hype.
Five. Critical thinking repels propaganda.
Six. Critical thinking repels chicanery.
Seven. Critical thinking repels binary arguments in favor of nuanced ones. See page 6 of From Inquiry to Academic Writing.
Eight. Critical thinking explores opposing views (and does not live in its own brain loop of fanboys).
Nine. Critical thinking identifies fallacious thinking.
Ten. Critical thinking is metacognition or The Third Eye, which addresses bad habits (student essay).
Eleven. Critical thinking repels pride. You can’t say to yourself, “I’m a critical thinker and people who aren’t like me are cave trolls.”
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