Exploring the insights about critical and uncritical thinking of the Chicken Little fable and its more ancient telling from the Buddhist tradition. Part III in a Series Exploring the Art of Critical Thinking in the Pursuit of Living Well
This hits me as an attempt to minimize. Partly admittedly because I just posted a sky is falling post . I’m having a visceral gut reaction to the brutality and violence occurring on our planet . If only I could be just be a little more cerebral about all this .. the actual truth is that the sky isn’t falling as long as YOUR sky isn’t falling.
My sky is falling , your sky is falling if you believe that we are all connected. When the sky falls anywhere on the planet , or the roof caves in , or a child’s limbs are blown off. How much worse does it need to get , what would it take before it registers to you that sometimes fear is exactly the appropriate catalyst to realizing that the sky, indeed is falling .. what’s happening is a direct consequence of too many complacent people who stay in their heads critically thinking their way through what should be ripping their hearts out.
This hits me as an attempt to minimize. Partly admittedly because I just posted a sky is falling post . I’m having a visceral gut reaction to the brutality and violence occurring on our planet . If only I could be just be a little more cerebral about all this .. the actual truth is that the sky isn’t falling as long as YOUR sky isn’t falling.
My sky is falling , your sky is falling if you believe that we are all connected. When the sky falls anywhere on the planet , or the roof caves in , or a child’s limbs are blown off. How much worse does it need to get , what would it take before it registers to you that sometimes fear is exactly the appropriate catalyst to realizing that the sky, indeed is falling .. what’s happening is a direct consequence of too many complacent people who stay in their heads critically thinking their way through what should be ripping their hearts out.