@Dianora There's been a lot said on education, and I don't think that well's spent yet.

There's also the distinction between liberal and servile education --- the classical Seven Liberal Arts of the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric --- or input, processing, and output as I like to consider them), and Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, or quantity, quantity in space, quantity in time, and quantity in space-time). C.P. Snow's "Two Cultures" is a more contemporary take on that, or present STEM/STEAM initiatives.

On propaganda, I twigged a few years ago that censorship, propaganda, surveillance, and targeted manipulation are all inherent elements of a media monopoly (both terms used in a broad sense), and emerge from them.

See: https://archive.is/8ceqI (Original site is now offline.)

I'd also long since recognised that privacy is an emergent concept as well, and a response to ever-more-intrusive communications, observation, and recording technologies. There's a reason why there was little discussion of the topic prior to Warren & Brandeis's treatment.

I'm something of a fan of articles from the cusp of the Internet age which discussed possible directions and implications, some prescient, some misguided. Jeffrey Rosen's The Unwanted Gaze (2000) still bears up as a good guide here, I think:

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL506586W/The_unwanted_gaze

Any pointers to your work at Centre for Inquiry?

#propaganda #censorship #surveillance #TargetedManipulation #monopoly #MediaMonopoly #TheUnwantedGaze #JeffreyRosen #privacy #LiberalArts #Trivium #Quadrivium

#Glossatoren
1. #Generation #Norditalien​ische #Wissenschaft​ler:

#Irnerius (bis ca. 1125), #Lehrte in #Universität von #Bologna
#Lehrer des #Trivium​s: #Grammatik, #Dialektik bzw. #Logik, #Rhetorik // #Grundstudium
#Unterscheidung zu #Quadrivium und #später​em #eigen​en #Studium; z.B. #Theologie, #Jura.
#Abschluss: #Doktor

#Lehrmaterial: #Littera #Florentina; #Digestenhandschift aus 6 Jhdt.

#Glosse #Digesten #Florenz

#Vorlesung #Römische #Rechtsgeschichte, #Avenarius, 2. Sitzung