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Critical Thinking Has Never Been More Important<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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There are several reasons I spend so much time discussing and analyzing the current state of affairs. The primary motivation, aside from a drive to share personal opinions and spread awareness, is to encourage people to think critically. I don\u2019t want readers to agree with everything I say, I want people to become inspired to think for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling class doesn\u2019t want you to think, they want you to simply accept the nonsensical stories they tell you. By contrast, I don\u2019t want readers to blindly accept any of my conclusions, rather, I want my work be a case study on how to deploy independent logic and insight to a variety of topics and situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I haven\u2019t discussed the 2020 presidential campaign much here, I comment on it quite a bit over at Twitter, and people often ask why I discuss the circus at all. The reason isn\u2019t because I expect a politician to come save us and make everything right again, but because the establishment response to populist-type candidates is so instructive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Trump hasn\u2019t done much of anything to address our nation\u2019s core fundamental problems; such as a two-tier justice system, central bank power, financial feudalism, aggressive militarism\/empire, rogue intelligence agencies, civil liberties abuses and tech giant censorship, his unexpected victory over chosen one Hillary Clinton nevertheless exposed many individuals and institutions for the frauds they are. Bernie Sanders\u2019 run is doing the same thing. You don\u2019t have to like the specific policies of Trump or Sanders to appreciate how any candidate with even a hint of grassroots populism puts the \u201celites\u201d into panic mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical Thinking Has Never Been More Important There are several reasons I spend so much time discussing and analyzing the current state of affairs. The primary motivation, aside from a drive to share personal opinions and spread awareness, is to encourage people to think critically. I don\u2019t want readers to agree with everything I say, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4285,6174,26071,3899],"class_list":["post-51382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-narrative-management","tag-ruling-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51383,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51382\/revisions\/51383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}