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Don’t be fooled. The andthensomeworks.com blog has moved from a Thursday-Saturday format to a Tuesday-Thursday format. Nothing else has changed. There will still be the same great essays, they will simply be appearing on a different day. Why did we change? We have discovered that many people enjoy reading our essays while at work. In this way, the Tuesday tease will be followed by the Thursday essay in a manner that best corresponds to a typical work week. No longer will those at work have to wait until the following Monday to read the Saturday essay. We have changed to best accommodate people’s work schedule.

“Critical thinking” according to Wikipedia, “consists of mental processes of discernment, analysis and evaluation. It includes possible processes of reflecting upon a tangible or intangible item in order to form a solid judgment that reconciles scientific evidence with common sense.” This is a great definition, but these skills — even when possessed by people — are unlikely to be used. It seems that in our society today, people react less by using their mental processes of discernment, analysis, and evaluation and more by using their emotion, gut reaction, and prior conditioning. Although much of what I suggest in this Thursday’s essay, “A “thinking” environment should be at the core of any true democracy,” is based on what I consider to be an “ideal” society, it does offer a legitimate solution that could be enacted if people chose to do so.

Share your And Then Some Story about living a thoughtful life and how you establish, develop, and maintain such a life in today’s world. Did you have a “thinking” environment in your home? Was it encouraged in the schools you went to? How about the school-home connection? Did your church, synagogue, or temple challenge you to think and not just accept? How about the environment where you work?

And Then Some Essay - April 10, 2008
Healthy A "thinking" environment should be at the core of any true democracy
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:
Several times during my life I have been asked, “If you could change anything in this world, what would it be?” And, at various times I have given different answers to this question: poverty, the environment, or honesty. But, I have an answer that could really make a difference in our world — not that solving the problem of poverty, saving our environment, or creating an atmosphere of honesty would not make substantial contributions. If everyone — parents, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, and individuals themselves — focused on developing and maintaining a “thinking” environment, perhaps many of the other problems of this world would and could be solved.
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