critical thinking blog #4

Susan Jacoby's novel entitled The Age of American Unreason chapter 9, entitled "junk thought" is about the rationalization of scientific bases that are divulged into the public. Is also Jacoby's way of stating that through a junk thought explanation, the public is able to grasp the rationalization behind the scientific community and the means in which things are happening. Unfortunately this also means that it is a downgrade of the level of intelligence of the language towards he public, put short it is an oversimplification of the scientific language. in my opinion of this interpretation of junk thought, it only shows the lack of faith in understanding towards the public by the scientific community towards the public capabilities to understand advanced forms of science. I agree with Jacoby that with this interpretation the public is better able to grasp the rationalization of the scientific community better, especially in fields of study that they are just not capable of understanding, like advanced quantum physics in spacial dimensions, now that's a hard field of study if i do say so myself. The concept of junk thought though is in itself a completely strange way to define the simplification of scientific language, if it should be called anything in a rational term it should be called simplified science, very fit if i do say so myself, its straight to the point and allows no other means of interpretations about the definition of the term itself. I will say this though about junk thought, it is a pretty interesting term that is able to show the lack of depth in intelligence that the modern day American represents and learns throughout his/her life or scholarly forms of education.