Can Literacy Be Bad?

Critical thinking is indispensable to being alive and informed in an age of information.

To think that one can comprehend the fullness of a subject by
doing a twenty second phone search for a bit of information is clearly ridiculous,
and leads to an often crippling lack of context, that can sometimes be disastrous.

In this age of push-button access to information,
I am often astonished by how little the average person knows.
If an individual does not, in the information age,
have a solid basis for understanding information as knowledge,
misinformation and disinformation becomes an ever present threat.

Knowing how to use grammar and logic to put information together in
a useful structure and mechanism for understanding is the way to avoid the danger.
Structure (grammar), assembly (logic), and use (rhetoric) of language to
function as a rational consciousness allow us to take advantage of
the dynamics of the phenomena of reality.

The list of logical fallacies is not only a way to protect yourself from
falsity from without, but also from within.
As someone once said, "don't believe everything that you hear, read, or think."
I would add, do not believe everything you feel or intuit either.

History... Interview: The Trivium Method vs. The Classical Trivium: A Briefing by Kevin Cole

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