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.

pre-reading blog #4

What is “junk thought”? Is it thinking that is worthless? What is that, exactly? What examples can you find in your experience? In your opinion, how does it influence people? Please end your blog with at least one good critical question.
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"Junk thought" I suppose could be categorized as a line of thought that leads to a false or ignorant idea, such as thinking that the holocast never occurred during World War II, that is what I believe "junk thought" to be. I would'nt consider "junk thought" to be worthless, just mis-leading and wrong, there is no such thing as a worthless thought, only those that don't think are truly worthless. A "junk thought" that I can think of from my life is probably the "false" thought that cheese companies used to have in their comercials about the moon being made out of cheese, it may be false, but it is still a funny thought to give to child, to allow them to believe and think that anything is [pssibnle if the moon is made out of cheese, makes you think "what is the planet mars made out of? Orange Juice?" that is the false "junk thought", and each indivividual thought can be called worthless, but only in the stance that it is untrue, each "junk thought" influences those that hear and makes them think from that thought, "is that true or false?" This thought approach could be conisedered the foundation that the scientific method is based off, trial and error through experimentation. So my critical question to you the reader is this, if "junk thought" could be linked with the thought of thinking all reason, and scientific reason especially, does that mean that all "junk thought" could be considered to be the most important thought humans have, or could it be condsidered the worst only because that thought makes absolutly no sense, just like this question? Think and learn, or learn to think, that is true wisdom (how very gnomic of me).