Getting Butt-Naked: A Story of Conditioning
Rome Reddington (jerome jones jr.)Snippet:
As a result of my conditioning, I began to create a persona. I call this a persona because it lacks the critical awareness to be considered “Me”. By critical awareness, I mean the ability to look at oneself, the world/society, and their place in the world/society. To look at the world critically is to examine one’s own environment and their ability to interact and change the circumstances. Critical awareness is itself an action; it is not some static thought process. On the contrary, critical awareness is a dynamic thought process that deals with the world as it is. This analysis deals with facts not with opinions/beliefs (I see belief and opinion as one in the same because both lack the critical awareness to be categorized as any form of critical thought).
This book was initially written as a dissertation for a doctorate in Adult Education and Counseling. The book itself is the study. It is written as a story of thinking critically. In my hyperbole, I decided to name critically thinking about why we think the way we do “getting butt-naked”.