Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
But if that's true, how did critical evaluation appear in the first place?
My guess: somewhere thousands of years ago, someone got irritated because he didn't get what he wanted or something that was expected to happen did not, and then he began to wonder why things didn't go as planned. Put another way, the first critical thinking probably began with a thought akin to "Hey, WTF?" Come to think of it, I recall reading a book or article arguing that virtually all the important discoveries of mankind were not accompanied by an exclamation of triumph ("Eureka!" or "I did it!"), but rather an expression of confusion ("huh??" or "what the--") because something unexpected happened.
Meanwhile, if only I could find a way to get some cheap Uggs...