The near utter lack of critical thinking in todays world, and the USA in particular, is the by-product of adapting the wrong philosophy of living to one’s life. Something cannot be true and untrue at the same time, but the garbage taught in most universities teaches one that there are no absolutes, thus relegating critical thinking and abstraction practically into oblivion. The problem of todays decay of reasoning minds is one of philosophy. The popular philosophy of the day, which is reflected acutely in colleges, is one of subjectivism and existential nihilism, which can explain in large part the popularity of hacks like Obama, because the general philosophy at large in the USA is one that despises greatness, achievement, and personal responsibility, and instead embraces vicitimhood, altruism, and subjective whim worship. No wonder so many unthinking people look to Obama as a messiah, he does there critical thinking for them; he is the ultimate subjectivist standard they have adopted as their own.
