to disrupt our thinking
Does "to disrupt our thinking" here mean "to challenge our thoughts" or "to stop us from thinking"?
Context:
I truly believe that art can be powerful, meaningful and funny at the same time, and that artists who can make us laugh have a special gift to disrupt our thinking.
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"I truly believe that art can be powerful, meaningful, and funny at the same time. Artists who can make us laugh have a special gift to disrupt our thinking." This may be a better way to write it.
The word "disrupt", in the context of the sentence means to stop. If the writer wanted to mean "challenge", they would not use the word "disrupt".
Also, a very common mistake that English people make is not knowing where to put commas ( , ) when listing adjectives or nouns. For example, "powerful, meaningful and funny". There should be a comma after the word "meaningful". Without a comma, you're implying that "meaningful" and "funny" go together. Many native English speakers make this mistake too.
Here is an example sentence.
"I looked outside and saw many different colored cars. I saw cars that were orange, blue, red, yellow, black and white."
Was the there a black car and a white car, or was the there one car painted black and white?
Without a comma after "black", the sentence implies that there were cars that had two colors.
To better understand, let me type it another way.
"I saw cars that were orange, black and white, blue, red, yellow, black, and white. Now you know that there were black, white, and black and white cars. Even that sentence tells you that there were 3 different cars. When you don't add a comma you are suggesting/implying that the last two words are together.
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It means "change the way think; make us see the way we think and evaluate whether it's good or not, so that we can change it"
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