The Wire never generated critical thought in a single person who was not
>> already beginning at least to think critically, said beginning rooted in
>> his/her history.
>>
>
> Again, I don't get it. I don't see how you can know this and I don't see
> how you can separate these things out. A person's history includes what
> they've read or movies they've seen. And I really don't care whether
> something generates, pushes along, or focuses. It's all of a piece.
>
You're a few steps ahead of me, Dennis; I don't even understand how one "begins" to think critically. What might they have been doing up until that point?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."