>>5933791Everything is math. But also math is just a language that we developed to try and rationalize everything. If you approach art like it’s a math/science problem that needs to be investigated and researched and experimented with you start to think more critically about process and purpose and stuff.
I took what I thought would be blow off classes as math credits in college, math and society and math and human society, and they kind of ended up blowing my mind more than any political science or philosophy class.
Like we should use a base 12 numbering system. Base 10 is stupid. And then English is stupid because we use stupid german words for 11 and 12 that trick kids into thinking in base 12 when they learn to count and then having to unlearn that later.
Basically like how kids always just ask “why” and frustrate their parents until they get punished for it and stop doing it. To think critically is to like internalize that childlike wonder and curiosity and always have that as a nagging voice in the back of your head, and then as an adult you have to try and rationally explain and research the answer the why until you run out of questions, and the more you do this the more you realize there’s never an end to the questions and that’s just what life is.
Like if find yourself asking “why is it like that” or “why do it be the way it do” or “wonder what his deal is” and then don’t chase that impulse in an objective and scientific-esque way, you’re not really thinking critically.
Like understanding fallacies and how logic is math and debate is supposed to be mathematically sound. And then when you know the fallacies and the biases and can rationally debate yourself on an issue and understand the various perspectives and what’s motivating them, then you’re thinking pretty critically.
What is truth? What is reality? What is existence? How can these things be objectively determined?
