What’s something most people don’t understand?
The things most people don’t understand would fill enough volumes to stack a bookcase.
The ability to understand many of those things are education related. As Sally Field told Burt Reynolds in “Smokey and the Bandit”, “how dumb you are depends on what part of the country you come from”. Sally Field’s character was a dancer from the north and understood little of Bo’s southern vernacular. While Burt Reynolds’ character had no clue about “Frog’s” theatrical world.
But there is one thing that crosses all barriers…how to think things through!
A simple example…the United States is currently amidst some political uproar with an administration who has made some decisions that were clearly not thought through…
Mass firings of employees under the guise of saving money may help in the short end but what about the long term effects??? Like fewer tax payers means less money in the kitty to pay the bills. Fired workers leads to more unemployment payments dipping further into the budget as well. Fewer workers also means less money being paid into the Social Security fund; exacerbating the so called short fall in funding.
The massive firings of the younger workers severely hinders the future work force. As the veteran work force ages and retires the new younger workers are needed to fill the gap but when those workers have been fired in the name of saving money, there will be no one to replace the aging workers.
In today’s gaming world, an analogy might be…this is a game of chess, not checkers…where thinking several moves ahead are required.
In the end, firing the federal workers have also sparked numerous legal battles, further causing the government the money they claim to want to save.
A much better move would have been to off early retirement packages for older workers. Checking for redundant positions and look at ways to merge them and moving workers into better needed positions. And working more slowly and methodically to ease out non-essential positions as people retire or move on.
There are many many such events going on in the current administration that it is obvious no one bothered to think through, just throw out an idea and act on it recklessly.
However, I have found that the federal government is far from alone in this regard. There are times I will offer a thought on social media and am immediately met with criticism, name calling, and in general “bullying”; making it clear that no one bothered to think about what I said past the initial post.
The scientific types refer to it as critical thinking…but if you call thinking things through critical thinking, the government steps in and wants to ban it for being something bad.
Another analogy could be to compare thinking things through as legging out a hit in baseball. A batter doesn’t hit a ball and stand on home plate to watch what happens, they drop the bat and runs as fast as they can hoping to make it to the base safely.
Critical thinking – thinking things through – should be an essential part of everyone’s life. The world would be a much better place if it was.