Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of the lawnmower.
A lot of people have this problem with your other blog: you ask them to think critically about a specific topic, as an exercise in critical thinking itself, but instead of focusing on the thinking - which is really what you are interested in - they go off on irrelevant discussions (rants, even) on the topic itself, or worse yet take it out on you for trying to make them think critically about their opinions. All the while they fail to even grasp the exercise in critical thinking, and cannot detach that from their thoughts and opinions about the topic. It's very annoying to me, and I believe to you too.
The topics themselves are less interesting than the exercise in critical thinking about the topics and opinions about those topics.
Naked Bob Dylan Robot says:
ReplyDeleteThen take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of the lawnmower.
Don't worry, your question was not unreadable.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people have this problem with your other blog: you ask them to think critically about a specific topic, as an exercise in critical thinking itself, but instead of focusing on the thinking - which is really what you are interested in - they go off on irrelevant discussions (rants, even) on the topic itself, or worse yet take it out on you for trying to make them think critically about their opinions. All the while they fail to even grasp the exercise in critical thinking, and cannot detach that from their thoughts and opinions about the topic. It's very annoying to me, and I believe to you too.
The topics themselves are less interesting than the exercise in critical thinking about the topics and opinions about those topics.