{"id":334689,"date":"2011-03-24T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/whatever-happened-to-critical-thinking\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:50:46","slug":"whatever-happened-to-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/whatever-happened-to-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To Critical Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the past two weeks, I have been the intense subject of two interesting \u201cpseudo-rejoinders.\u201d Pseudo rejoinders because none of them critically and\/or intelligently addressed even a single one of the issues earlier on raised by me over which, apparently, the authors\u2019 hackles had been raised.<\/p>\n

The first of these faux-rejoinders was captioned \u201cThe Fuddy-Duddy Called Kwame Okoampah[sic]-Ahoofe, Junior\u201d (See Modernghana.com 3\/13\/11), while the second one was presumptuously titled \u201cVilifying Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, Valerie Sackey\u201d (MyJoyOnline.com 3\/21\/11).<\/p>\n

I have not particularly concerned myself with the name or identity of either author, because under the specious guise of dignity preservation, they have both traded gratuitous insults where logic and systematic ratiocination were required. In the first instance, the author, a new recipient of the doctoral degree, and a newly-hired Assistant Professor of English at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, comically and ironically presumed to \u201cexpose\u201d me to public ridicule by actually exposing himself, most likely inadvertently, for the abject gasbag that I have always envisaged him to be. <\/p>\n

And precisely how did this godforsaken fellow \u201cexpose\u201d me, but predictably and pitifully cut-and-paste the largely anonymous Internet chat-room remarks and comments of people whose credibility, moral and psychological, could never be sustained in a legitimately constituted court of law. And as I heartily told my good friend and elder brother, Mr. Kwasi Ohene, I now have that SOB self-boxed into a corner where I precisely want him; which is that having seriously taxed the capacity of his rational faculties \u2013 that is assuming he has any \u2013 to its apparent limits, that SOB has now garishly exposed himself for the ignoble charlatan that I have always suspected him to be.<\/p>\n

You see, dear reader, you cannot presume to have \u201cexposed\u201d somebody by shamelessly evading the significant and relevant questions which the latter has logically and genuinely raised in a counter-argument to one\u2019s morbid attempt to gratuitously vilify former President John Agyekum-Kufuor, merely because one is in ideological dissension with the man who is unarguably Ghana\u2019s finest constitutionally elected leader in our Fourth Republic.<\/p>\n

For those of our readers who may be interested, my article was captioned \u201cYes, Kufuor Has Been Vindicated In Principle!\u201d (See Ghanaweb.com 3\/14\/11). I do not deem it necessary to rehash the thrust of my pro-Kufuor brief herein, except to adumbrate on the fact that those who have meticulously followed my publications are fully aware of the fact that Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is no facile partisan of President Kufuor, and that I have not hesitated to call our \u201cGentle Giant\u201d to the proverbial carpet when I felt the imperative need to do so.<\/p>\n

In the second instance, the critic\u2019s raison detre for rejoining my article, captioned \u201cValerie Sackey Is A Typical Lickspittle\u201d (Ghanaweb.com 3\/18\/11), appears to be more sentimental than rational, for the wet-eared author bitterly complains that I have intemperately called his journalism school teacher to the carpet. Here also, not a single issue raised in my article is addressed by this novice critic, except to obliquely crave the sympathy of both yours truly and that of the charitable reader. All of which delightfully leaves me wondering whether constructively touching a raw nerve, now and then, is not, perhaps, the best way to capture the sedulous attention of these popinjays and panjandrums. Not that it matters, anyhow.<\/p>\n

Still, when both my would-be \u201cexposers\u201d and \u201cvilifiers\u201d cannot accurately spell the name of yours truly, dear reader, then, of course, couldn\u2019t one almost safely conclude that the unquestionably diligent instructors and lecturers at the Ghana Institute of Journalism and Cape Coast University do not seem to be reaping the condign credit of having educated emulative replicas of themselves? By all means, let God save us from ourselves, of whose latter foes we certainly are!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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