Disinformation or simply Blather?

 Chris Trotter writes a very good article here.

In it he discusses freedom of information, it's suppression and history.

Apart from the first decade of the 21st century information has never been free.

As soon as Gutenberg introduced his movable-type press to Europe the powers that be started censoring it's output. Initially, of course, the god-botherers who had the market in reading tied up, followed by Royalty in all its forms.

Academics were next (and the World still suffers) and not until the mid-war years did reading become cheap and easy for most, although still not free.

Always there was (and still is) a cost. That cost went down for a while but never really went away.

That cost is education.

Education, once you had it it allowed you to read; not just see and recognise the words but read.

With education you could understand the thoughts the words set out to convey, could choose whether the words had a meaning you could consider as advice or were simply blather.

Mr Trotter blames various entities or classes for controlling information by controlling the printing presses and thirty years ago he would probably have had a case. 

Now he is wrong, it is not the restriction on information that is the problem at all.

It doesn't matter what "reporters" or their editors produce (although it matters when the State steals from me to pay the bastards for it) as long as the recipients are bright enough to adopt or discard depending on what they read in it.

The problem is that almost all education has been taken over by people who actively discourage people from thinking. people who restrict education for their own selfish purposes.

It is these low-lifes, the schoolteachers, from ECE to the pathetic professors who need weeding out, need replacing.

Don't suppress them, just make the bastards earn their living honestly.

Look for the suits (without ties) in the Dole queue.