🧠 How power, conformity, and social media erode critical thinking | Jonny Thomson

A politician gets elected because they can think critically, then walks into office and is told exactly how to vote.

Philosopher and Big Think columnist Jonny Thomson traces this contradiction back to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writings on power, which reveal how institutions demand the opposite of the intelligence that got someone into the room.

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Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a columnist at Big Think and is the award-winning, bestselling author of three books that have been translated into 22 languages.

Jonny is also the founder of Mini Philosophy, a social network of around two million curious, intelligent minds. He’s known all over the world for making philosophy accessible, relatable, and fun.

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