What’s your preferred conclusion? I am sometimes tempted to start this way.

What’s your preferred conclusion? I am sometimes tempted to start this way. Probably it would save an enormous amount of time.

The way debates are going are often pseudo debates with preconceived outcomes. The debate is to pretend that there is a line of reasoning and that the hidden truth will??be uncovered. But often people are ‘debating’ with a conclusion in mind, that one, the preferred one. That the problem is institutional racism, or that the leadership of the company is deaf,??or that a particular minority is a victim. Those preferred conclusions, in their hundreds or thousand, are pre-cooked. There is a big market of conclusions out there.??

From universities to pulpits, from Think Tanks to branding agencies, from Liberals to Traditionalists, a lot of thinking is today conclusion-ready.

The only difference is how long may take to show it. Most of our mental activity is of course unconscious.

Our mind has the logical algorithms ready to go, waiting for the trigger. Critical Thinking is precious, almost sacred. But it’s in short supply . I am really serious about, when necessary, stopping an argument and ask, ‘What is your preferred conclusion?’ Who knows what that may spark