When it comes to distorted thinking, would you say that most/some/very few are afflicted with it?

Question

Why did you pick your answer?

Answer 1

I think that everyone has their own unique way of looking at the world and reacting to it.

So, our thoughts are indeed different from others, but not necessarily distorted or wrong.

However, some thoughts can be considered outside the norms established by the culture in which we exist. But, does that make those thoughts wrong. To me, it does not.

Answer 2

I think it is very likely that at the point of Descartes' aphorism in Latin (the learned language of the day) I think, therefore I exist, the West took a decisive turn for the worst. Which brought power, and prosperity, but nonetheless had an inevitable price to pay, which will be unbearable in the long run. But "reasoning" as an essential element in life, led to science, which is determining our total direction. To a large extent the conflict can be seen in HG Wells' prophetic books, especially "Things to Come." But the mid-19th C. to a deadly extent moved our thinking in a poisonous direction, which will prove FATAL, in four key areas (that I call the Four Horsemen), which are Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Charles Darwin. All of these gentlemen have spread their ideas through the 20th C. without proof in most cases, but accepted and idealized ALL THE MORE STRONGLY for not being proved. (Darwin even said, if no proof shows up, then I am probably wrong.) But the missing link, remains missing, and always will be missing, despite a trunkload of bone fragments. We have exchanged a mess of pottage for our birthright of paradise and happiness. And what a mess it is.

Answer 3

I'll go one futher and say that unless you understand the fundemental falicacy of human language your going to have a distorted view of the world no matter who you are. Technically all words are pretty much imperfect pictures of something that we've experienced that more times then not, are beyond the ability of a word to communicate that experience. So DISTORTION!!!!!