The Rise Of NPCs: Why Critical Thinking Is Dead

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Timestamps:
What Is Happening To Critical Thinking?: 0:00
The 1990s/Early 2000s: 0:10
What Happened After The Internet: 2:59
The Rise Of Hypercompetition: 4:27
Polarization And Superlatives: 5:19
The Rise Of Gurus: 7:21
How Everything Is Connected: 9:25
The Echo Chamber Problem: 10:09
How To Become A Better Critical Thinker: 12:16
A Good Critical Thinking Exercise: 17:26
One Of The Best Books For Critical Thinking: 16:01
More Problems With The Modern World: 18:05

Topics: Why critical thinking makes you smarter, why everyone hates everyone, andrew tate, manosphere, gen z is hopeless, echo chambers, liberals vs conservatives

[lumaspive]

It’s ridiculous that people are so easily willing to adopt everything about an ideology rather than actually form a unique opinion. It feels better to be in a group than to think freely I guess.

[speedybonsky]

I wrote an essay about this topic about two years ago and my teacher said that it was BS 💀

[derpycow]

Me: watches video on critical thinking
Also me: nods, doesn’t question and agrees with everything said

[Me-dpjz]

As Aristotle said ‘’ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” it seems like people forgot about that.

[justonepilot]

Cole: *Think for yourself*

Also Cole: *Here's how to think for yourself*

[jyllianrainbow]

The division in our society is mostly an internet illusion. I haven't used Facebook in a decade and I don't even have a Twitter account. I almost exclusively talk to people face to face and the real life conversations I have with people are very nuanced and reasonable. Nobody calls each other evil or throws out extremist views. These are also working class people. People just forgot the old saying, "Don't believe everything you see on the internet."

[kardellgarrick]

"If you don't read the news paper you're uninformed but if you do read the news paper you're misinform" I believe that saying's more relevant now that any other time in human history

[jennysomething]

There is a huge problem I noticed with "fake activism" people just blindly fighting for whatever is popular now, they don't care about victims or about fighting for them, they care about attacking people with opinions they saw on a tiktok video

[Slizzul]

bro finally a self improvement channel that encourages you to use your brain instead of just giving you their beliefs and telling you to stick with them, it always felt a bit odd because it feels like theyre trying to make you their ideal person rather than your own which kinda defeats the purpose of self improvement

[paullopez]

12:10 - 12:16 the whole “you don’t agree with me? You’re a bad person” has been my experience with NPCs as well.

[ocultshinobi]

This channel tends to be more different than all the other self improvement channels out there. Keep up the good content Cole.

[TheBobbylegs]

Im a philosophy graduate, and one thing that haunts me as a result is how often people call my logic and critical thinking skills (basically my entire post-secondary education) “overthinking.”

[JamesJani]

This was really well made — leaves a lot to think about.

[Highdisordermortal]

This video reminded me of what one of the first things my dad taught me. One day, as we were driving home from karate class, he told me that Africa is actually larger than most maps show it as. He also added this. "Don't believe me, do your own research and come up with your own conclusion. Make sure that you cross examine your sources to verify your conclusion." I think this is what is wrong about people today. They don't want to do extended research. I never trust anything blindly without definitive proof. My father passed away last August, may he rest in peace.

[aaronphillips]

The situation has gotten so bad that it’s tearing families and friends apart.

[SenorTortas]

There have always been 3 types of people in this world:
1. People who do as they're told
2. People who do the telling
3. People who ignore everything they're told and find shit out for themselves (which I would argue is the rarest based only on subjective experience and without data, of course)

As you mentioned though, the difference between now and any other period in human history are the tools we have to quantify this and alter its reach

[hyperwolf]

It really is difficult not to be a sheep in this society, and I can see why. I've been combative ever since I was a kid, and my opinions are quite different from others. As I got older, this trait started to treat me terribly. My social life is quite strained because I don't like to completely swallow everything that gets put in front of me, I dodge trends, I don't like simple black and white answers, and I don't actually spend all that much time on the media. It isolates me a lot, but I'm proud of my mental and emotional independence and I like this channel, it encourages you to find your own way.

[yohaizilber]

The most powerful way to win an argument is by asking questions. It can make people see the flaws in their logic, the same goes for negotiation and self-reflection, you will learn more than you can imagine.

[badconnection]

I think we've become more divided because we get more information, but we only get information we actually agree with and subconsciously ignore information that we don't agree with.

[thehale_]

A good way to critical think is to follow your gut, and be willing to CHANGE YOUR MIND if you discover that you were wrong about something.

People nowadays are super afraid of changing their minds for some reason.