"Why Don't People THINK?"

Our society is presently entering a looking-glass world (see American Thinker article and note the following quote): "belief in things that do not exist, belief in complete figments of unanchored imagination, abstractions that have no contact with or bearing on reality. Call it the age of irrealism, of pervasive virtuality, of estrangement from the objective world."

After reading the above AT article, I noticed the following comment and observation in the Comment Section by satch43: "This is a superb article, one that needs to be republished widely. Modernism, led by reason, has brought the greatest freedom and prosperity to more people than ever before. Why has post-modernist "thinking" come to dominate first, academia, and now the media? It must have to do with a quest for power, for domination of the populace. Nothing else makes sense to me.

Do the marchers not see that what they are proclaiming is not true? I don't think so, because they are not thinking, just acting the way they are told. As my chief of medicine drilled into my head half a century ago: "Why don't people THINK? Because thinking is difficult, painful, and time-consuming."

In addition to the above fact that "thinking is difficult, painful, and time-consuming" ...... another reason why people no longer want to "think" in our society, is simply because they willingly possess the curse of a closed and prejudiced mind.

Until these non-thinking folks are willing to lay aside all prejudice and any preconceived ideas, (removing themselves from their looking-glass world), there will be no hope for them to gain any insight as to what's really important in life (based on reality -- see here).

---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets