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albacore

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24. I don't think anything can be done to help those people....

Sat Mar 26, 2022, 03:33 PM

Mar 2022

From the article..."Beginning with Adorno's classic study of the authoritarian personality, empirical works have linked low levels of cognitive sophistication with right-wing orientations...."

There is a great deal of discussion about whether higher-level thinking skills, such as critical thinking, are a function of brain development. I tend to believe they are a function of brain development.
I don't believe you can "teach critical thinking" to someone who lacks development in certain areas of the pre-frontal cortex.
They can't help being who they are. Much as that damages the country and the rest of us.

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