# The Power of Critical Thinking
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I read this writing i wrote a year ago and it made me think again. I phrased the words "the truth depends on from which side you're looking at" or something along those lines. I was just looking at a bottle of water which has this round-ish form but if im sitting in front of it i can't see the back of it.
Im reading "spa bruiswater" but I'm not reading the ingredients. If someone were to sit across me they wouldn't see "spa bruiswater" but they'd see the ingredients. If i were asked what I knew about the bottle I'd say "its spa bruiswater" and the other person would probably start mentioning the contents of this bottle and might miss the fact that it's bruiswater. Okay that was a poor example because if some thinking is used they'd know it's sparkling water but hey thats not the point.
Point is, if both of us would give facts about the bottle we'd say different things about the same bottle and both be right.
That's possible, you know? Both being right. This is just a waterbottle so we wouldn't fight about it but if it could have been other things.
And adding to the fact that I and person B are sitting across each other we are both just a few meters away from the bottle.
There could also be a person C right around the corner. They see us across each other discussing the bottle and they could observe it as something else and not even see the bottle just the people. And person C decides to take a video of it out of context and put it on the internet. There you'll have person D, E, F, G, etc, who will judge based on whatever song is attached to that video, or whatever else they see.
Meanwhile, I and person B who were sitting around the bottle are never asked about the situation even though we were directly involved.
Maybe thats how a lot of things work too.
What if the truth just depends on from which side you're looking at? Someone could also just walk up to us and take the damn bottle to see it for themselves. Or person K could stand on a balcony and see the bigger picture. Person K, who saw all the discussions and videos with trending audios on the internet coincidentally lives across the street and decided to take a look. Person K approaches the two people and listen to both. They could take the bottle, read what's on it and conclude that both me and person B were right.
Person K is a critical thinker. We lack person K's in this world nowadays.
Writing this now I realised I should've given them names instead of initials but whatever we're halfway anyways. Point is, we lack critical thinking. We lack analytical thinking, we lack thinking in general. That's the one thing that humans should be better at than AI and whatever that technology is taking from us.
Now let's think about it; if this wasn't a waterbottle. Think of real life scenarios. I'm for example all for protests, human rights, all that justice, ive marched the streets for several causes, but let's be honest how many of us actually read both sides, actually read the history, before we march up the streets? If we protest, is there a limit to it? When does critical thinking sound louder than chants? Do we actually want to solve a problem or do we just want to be loud?
I often think of solutions as implementation-solutions. There's a problem, we voice it, spread awareness, which, dont get me wrong, is very important.
However, what do we do about it besides the chants? What books can we study? What aspects can we analyze? From which point of view do we think and look?
That's the thing. I believe that reading, analyzing, learning, and thinking is the most powerful thing you can have and use. It's silent but so damn powerful.
I believe if everyone just learns to critically think, if we let each other talk and God, if we stop electing stupid people as leaders, this world would've been a whole lot better place. Cuz come on. We're human beings, man. But well, its not that simple, sadly.
Deep inside, nobody wants to kill the other person. Its hatred that formed from surroundings and all that just comes back to people's pride, lack of critical thinking and empathy.