• nonailsleft
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    2 months ago

    Access to education and societal tolerance to critical thinking?

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      2 months ago

      Closer! Access to education helps, certainly. Social tolerance for critical thinking, however, stems from material conditions as well, however.

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        2 months ago

        That’s a pretty naive take. There are plenty of rich religious fundamentalists, and plenty of poor atheists. And plenty of rich societies with very little tolerance for critical thinking

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          I don’t mean wealth when I say “material conditions,” I mean the whole of how society is organized and the class dynamics that exist within it.