#philoma

"Critical thinking" is a persistent, constant search/ quest for reason and understanding for every experience of reality. It requires rational deliberation which means, we have to persistently search for understanding on what we think. But there's also the tendency that we always accept what we hear without asking, it's just a matter of "accept or reject", and that's called IMMATURITY.

Authoritarianism is the imposition of knowledge with punitive attachment. It has a direct influence. And most of our knowledge came from authorities, for example our parents, supervisors, etc or being imposed. Authoritarianism leaves us no right to ask questions about something they wanted to impose on us. Therefore, it retarded our questioning process, we tend to always accept what we hear without even asking or analysing if these ideas were valid or not. And if we tend not to follow the imposed knowledge, there's always the attachments or the consequences in return. So therefore, authority is that which validates every truth claim held by authoritarianism.