CRITICAL THINKING IS DIFFICULT

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld, Writings On the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White (New York: Liberty Street, 2016) ("Embracing reason is an uphill battle for humans. Almost 400 yeas ago, philosopher Francis Bacon said, 'The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion . . . draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be greater number and weight of instances to be found in the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects . . . " Recent studies explain why nothing much has changed since that diagnosis . . .  It's both stimulating and addicting to reject, without examining, any information contrary to our beliefs. Id. at 34-35.).