Critical thinking

What is it?
Critical is a word describing perhaps the

software for driving aeroplanes - something of incredible importance, like a heart operation or the moments of action in a cliffhanger scene.

A similar word is criticism, where you provide analysis towards a project, action or object considering the intended use or purpose, where some other party or group of people may well have missed something important.

Critical thinking is the application of thought in any area - it might be strictly within certain boundaries of the existential society (as in the commercial sphere where critical analysis in many occupational fields is paramount to the quality of what we're doing in the world), but for our purposes we will take the term "critical thinking" to apply in an existential frame - i.e., what can the individual pick out and reveal, about society, where it's extremely important, but generally missed by general observation in society?

The application of critical thinking has a striking quality to it, existentially, because it's intelligent in a key and socially fundamental way.

We now have, here, a concept that can also be applied to other scenarios. Critical thinking can mean something significant in the evolution and overarching behaviour of civilizations, for example. If you were to create a new society we can now say that critical thinking, a particular mode and character of human thought, is the first thing you should establish (if you want it to survive).