Mediocracy is sticking to the behaviour of the average manager. Managers do what they have to do because they feel they have to. We are, in a way, caught in a kind of encompassing game, where we dare not question the ins and outs of a problem. Above all, once again, we have to think precisely, acutely and demandingly about the interests that are at stake when a situation arises.
Critical thinking is very much, in history, the relationship of citizens to power. Power usually promotes an ideology, that is, a perspective that is supposed to be operational and functional. It is the prerogative of power to administer things and to rely on documents that seem to be more relevant for making this or that decision. On the other hand, the opposition can engage in some critical thinking.