of the world, a bigger picture, what you find is that people will tend to become more wedded to their beliefs. They will clutch the cross. And the reason that people do that is because they can't bear the uncertainty. And that's because people need certainty. They need models and frameworks to structure reality, because reality is in its bare naked essence, chaotic. Or at least it appears chaotic to human beings. And we spent our entire lives doing that. And then, again, that brings us back to this point about power and structure, which is that we all need structure. We all have biases. We all have stereotypes. We all have frameworks and theories that we use to make sense of the world. But when you don't think critically, you're relying on other people's structures and other people's theories and frameworks and narratives to explain the world. And so you empower others at the expense of yourself. And that's where critical thinking is so important, because being able to think (13/97)
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