Everyone must learn critical thought for themselves. There is no single known correct path for "teaching" critical thought" - only the dog's breakfast that is called "philosophy" which we, trolls, disavow - the usefulness of trolling is in part to obsolete this.
Some pages at Living Platform itself exist mostly for the purpose of assisting those who seek to learn true critical thought for themselves:
There are specific constructs that we, trolls use to overcome the most obvious problems of civilization and loss of evolutionary pressure on humans:
Without some grounding in critical thought and living ontology, the full significance of the following will not be clear:
The agenda protocol and Living Agenda attempts to combine these into some rational collective intelligence system that is also part of the living ontology process.
You may:
Some pages at Living Platform itself exist mostly for the purpose of assisting those who seek to learn true critical thought for themselves:
- unthought - implicature, unstated basis for unity
- dialectic tension and forming stable tensegrity
- conceptual metaphors and deep framing - how you are manipulated by political marketing & propaganda
- being/doing/going - what animals do without thought
- civilization - a mechanism to enable more safe actions without thinking required at all (the definition according to Alfred North Whitehead).
- stupidity - what civilizations are actually made of
- ontology - the least destructive set of distinctions that all responsible members of a civilization can reliably learn to make - over time this must become somewhat simpler as civilization permits stupider and stupider humans to remain alive, eventually becoming what are called yahoos.
collective critical thought
There are specific constructs that we, trolls use to overcome the most obvious problems of civilization and loss of evolutionary pressure on humans:
- infer/refer/defer - basic intellectual integrity
- we/will/must - implied and explicit commit verbs
- issue/position/argument - managing point of view where there is only minimal agreement on an issue statement
- position/source/authority - working as journalists to report situations where there is no agreement on issues, arguments, evidence necessary - i.e. no one TIPAESA that all factions accept
- all party platform comparison charts are examples
- styles of capital especially instructional capital and the investment of energy, materials, management time
- consensus especially unanimity minus one and unanimity minus two modes of consensus decision making
- backcast to fixed time horizon and other means of scenario analysis
expression of critical distinctions in language
Without some grounding in critical thought and living ontology, the full significance of the following will not be clear:
The agenda protocol and Living Agenda attempts to combine these into some rational collective intelligence system that is also part of the living ontology process.
other ways to learn critical thought
You may:
- become a Jesuit
- become a philosopher
- become an ontologist
- blindly support the world trolling organization and hope that following trollherds is somehow better than not
- follow only specific trollherds whose values seem to reflect your own, and, copy whatever they do without any thought at all, until you begin to have your own ideas
- at which point, become an ECG Apprentice so that those ideas can be eradicated before they become dangerous - when even an ECG Master can no longer eradicate your ideas successfully, join the Efficient Civics Guild