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[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Access to education and societal tolerance to critical thinking?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Closer! Access to education helps, certainly. Social tolerance for critical thinking, however, stems from material conditions as well, however.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty naive take. There are plenty of rich religious fundamentalists, and plenty of poor atheists. And plenty of rich societies with very little tolerance for critical thinking

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I don't mean wealth when I say "material conditions," I mean the whole of how society is organized and the class dynamics that exist within it.