Why Don’t People Want to Think Anymore? A Therapist Breaks It Down

Описание: Welcome back to The Daily Donna.

In today’s episode, we are exploring a question that came out of conversations around Bad Bunny’s record breaking Super Bowl performance:

Why do so many people are saying, “I don’t want to think”?
From a therapeutic and cultural lens, this episode breaks down how stress, trauma, decision fatigue, supremacy culture, and cognitive biases all shape our resistance to critical thinking

A few Takeaways
The desire for rest and escape is prevalent in society.
The Dunning-Kruger effect influences people's willingness to think critically.
Art is inherently political, regardless of its surface message.

Key moments:
00:00 – Why People Don’t Want to Think
01:10 – Bad Bunny & Cultural Conversation
03:30 – Trauma, Stress & Escape
06:10 – Race, Visibility & Exhaustion
09:30 – Power, Privilege & Comfort
11:40 – Thoughts, Feelings & Behaviors
14:00 – Cognitive Dissonance Explained
16:00 – Dunning-Kruger & Confirmation Bias
19:00 – What Is Critical Thinking?
22:00 – Why Art Is Always Political
25:30 – The Right to Comfort
28:30 – Systems Pushing Back
31:00 – Final Reflections & Questions

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Resources: 5 Reasons why people don’t want to think psychologically: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl...

Critical thinking: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cr...

The nature of thinking shallow and deep: [PDF] frontiersin.org

Dysconciousness: https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/div...

The characteristics of white supremacy: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.inf...

In My Black Feelings: imbf.donnaoriowo.com

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