Poverty of thought is a global reduction in the quantity of thought and thought perseveration refers to a pattern where a person keeps returning to the same limited set of ideas.
Instead, says Mr Pang, a former diplomat, it highlights what he calls "a poverty of thought" in China today.
Its report, drawing on the experience of other countries, is a happy exception to the parties' generally dull introspection and poverty of thought.
There is poverty in thought and intellectual laziness when we simply say consumers want to make these decisions.
Poverty of thought is one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, and might also be a feature of severe depression or dementia.
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric illness with hallucinations, delusions, poverty of thought and emotions, social withdrawal and cognitive deficits as leading symptoms.
And Bill Shore, executive director of Share Our Strength, which works to fight hunger and poverty, echoes those thoughts: "In a perverse way prosperity hides poverty," he says.
In a study of residents in medicine, 25% thought poverty was a consequence of laziness, 50% thought the poor were more likely to abuse the healthcare system, and 50% thought the poor were less attentive to their health than the rest of the population [ 10].
It came to override other competing identities and led to the poverty of modern thought, including liberalism, conservatism, and radicalism.
According to a study conducted among residents in medicine, 25% thought that poverty was a consequence of laziness, 50% thought that the poor were more likely to abuse the health care system, and 50% thought that the poor were less attentive to their health than the rest of the population [ 26].
