Clarity on STO please

[rva_jeremy]

Thanks for explaining your thinking on thoughts, heh, John. You appear to be drawing a distinction between our deeper beliefs or habits of mind and our more surface, conscious thoughts. This is an interesting angle I hadn't considered.

Let me see if I am getting what you're saying: your point is that we can't simply consciously think ourselves to polarization; it comes from taking a thorough inventory of our beliefs, values, and perhaps what those of Ra call biases. Thoughts, though an element of the mind and the polarization process, are more a product of underlying beliefs and biases than themselves the drivers of polarization. Do I have that right?

I think that's very insightful. So what, in your opinion, is the role of our day-to-day conscious thinking? If we can't think our way to polarization, towards what ought we think?