There doesn't seem to be any critical thinking anymore and its driving me crazy
People don't think about stuff they have to be told what to do and think. They just repeat stuff they hear from a mainstream source and have the same opinions on everything. I can literally predict what people are going to say and how they are going to say it so I tend to avoid people now. And if you try to say something else a lot of times they will try to invalidate what you say or call you a conspiracy theorist.. I only talk to a few people now.
People are drowing in information and their inherent processing power is not keeping up. I think it's one of the reasons for drivers in wealth disparity. If you are super intelligent person ( in multiple aspects of intelligence) you can take the information you meed, filter out what you don't, make great decisions and prosper. If you are juat the average person, the demands of just keeping up in a super connected world are taxing and you will tire easily. I think many people are just intellectually exhausted
Unfortunately very few people are aware of the trivium. The elite are taught this important and essential skill but it has been eradicated from the education system and therefore it can not be used as a sort of spam filter or antivirus for the mind.
The trivium uses the sequence grammar, logic, rhetoric also termed as knowledge, understanding, wisdom. Within knowledge or grammar stage one must establish the four W's. What, when, where, who. This information can then be used to establish the logic or understanding stage. Once understanding is achieved wisdom can be created or rhetoric whereby the information can be passed on. This can be used in any and every situation in life.
Look at all TV or mainstream media. Almost all articles gloss over the 4 W's citing things like scientists say, or experts have recently discovered. No information is given. One could argue that the information is deliberately occulted but it is generalised. Information such as this is pure fallacy and should be viewed as junk. Since nobody really understands the trivium and the many forms of logical fallacy, they leave themselves open to mind control. It is that simple.