If Only Americans Had Thinking Skills

SUPPOSE YOU'RE AN AMERICAN LIBERAL, if you can stand the thought. In your mind, global warming is an established, incontrovertible fact, and those who deny it are idiots. Its high time to transform society compeletely so as to ward off the rapidly increasing climate change, if you're a liberal, mainly by eliminating fossil fuels and converting to solar energy, poste haste. Now suppose you're a conservative. If you're an American conservative, for you there is no scientific consensus concerning man made climate change, therefore it doesn't exist, and is in fact a liberal power grabbing hoax. (some hoax, huh?) In the United States of America, those are the only two choices, with nothing in between. Either, or. One extreme or the other. How surprising, coming from America, the United States of Arrogance, the land where we all know the truth, about climate change, and damned near everything else. You'll never hear an American admit to not knowing something. All Americans know everything, just ask them. If American liberals had a brain, they'd say "maybe we're wrong, maybe there is no man made climate change, but just in case, humor us." And if Ameridcan conservatives had brains, they'd say: "man made climate change is a pile of crap, but we'll humor you, and start transforming our civiliaztion, then, when you finally realize how wrong you were, we'; just laught at you." But alas....supposedly, in school, you learn something they call "thinking skills", which later becomes something fancier, called "critical thinking skills". We start thinking from birth, we can't help it, but there is something to be said for training the mind to think on a high level, to think intelligently, reasonably. We seem to be lacking that in America, and most probably, to a lesser degree, elsewhere as well. There is no shortgae of intelllgence anywhere, only a shortage of thinking-skills-training. Common sense should tell us all that neither liberalism nor conservatism, Christianity nor Islam, nor any other human religion or political orientation has a monoploy on truth, that there is truth is all belief systems, and, more importantly, limitations. In a relativistic universe, absolutes are few and far between. Other than the speed of light, and maybe a few other things. If only we had better thinking skills.