{"id":4470,"date":"2020-11-12T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2020-11-01T22:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:21:44","slug":"the-top-4-chicago-thinkers-number-3-will-shock-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/the-top-4-chicago-thinkers-number-3-will-shock-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 4 Chicago Thinkers: Number 3 Will Shock You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thinks their writers do the best thinking out of anyone. Today we pay homage to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its team of Thinkers\u2122, by honouring some of their influences &#8212; the greatest Chicago thinkers to ever have existed. Here are the top four Chicago thinkers that have influenced <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#4. The Ducks at Botany Pond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may believe the ducks at Botany Pond aren\u2019t very good thinkers. After all, they\u2019re surveilled 24 hours a day by a livestream publicly broadcast on YouTube. However, these Orwellian conditions of constant surveillance guard something very precious: the ducks\u2019 perfect thoughts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Numerous passersby have reported whispers that sound suspiciously like the phrases \u201cfree market,\u201d \u201cAdam Smith,\u201d and \u201creally turns me on.\u201d On another occasion, a duck was even heard lamenting about \u201cthe good old days when everything wasn\u2019t so PC\u201d and they could \u201csay racial slurs without being labelled a bigot by SJW\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#3. Karl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This entry was a controversial one since Karl Marx has never set foot in Chicago. However, as the founding member of Marxy Marx and the Funky Bunch, Karl Marx has been instrumental in shaping the political beliefs of the Thinkers\u2122 at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Marx\u2019s mild centrist beliefs regarding the bourgeoisie have given food-for-thought to those wishing to become good Chicago thinkers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#2: Roger Ebert<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through his phenomenal film reviews, Roger Ebert demonstrated that he has what it takes to make the list for the greatest Chicago thinkers. Reading through some of his reviews, it becomes all the more clear how he influenced <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s team. After viewing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bridge of Spies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2015, Ebert rewarded the movie with 3.5\/5 stars and wrote \u201cI liked how the Americans were the good guys and the communists were the bad guys.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we unveil the number one pick, here are a few honourable mentions from our shortlist:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bernard Sanders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dean Boyer\u2019s bicycle<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoever invented deep dish pizza<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That used tissue I saw on the sidewalk the other day<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any goldfish, doesn\u2019t matter which one<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now, it\u2019s time to unveil the number one Chicago thinker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#1: The Radical Leftist Mob<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This one should come as no surprise to anyone. The radical leftist mob that definitely exists on college campuses nation-wide &#8212; the mob with its very real tendency to stifle free speech by censoring conservatives and their right to say the n-word, you know the one &#8212; is no doubt the number one Chicago thinker. Particularly in the UChicago community, where a paper like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> isn\u2019t even allowed to be published because of its conservative views, and we definitely don\u2019t get emails from administrators about free speech every week, the completely non-fictional radical leftist mob has clearly shown it can outthink any other thinkers that may think they can outthink it. Indeed, it would require a special level of mental gymnastics to attempt to outthink the mob, which again is definitely real. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was founded in order to \u201coutthink the mob\u201d &#8212; a clear sign of the mob\u2019s influence! If this totally unimaginary mob weren\u2019t real, there would be no reason for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Thinker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to exist. So it\u2019s a good thing the mob does exist and is 100% real and not fake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Thinker thinks their writers do the best thinking out of anyone. Today we pay homage to The Chicago Thinker and its team of Thinkers\u2122, by honouring some of their influences &#8212; the greatest Chicago thinkers to ever have existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}