In addition to perturbing an individual's attention-focus (toward e.g. the buffering of correlations that look in/out from skin, family or culture), unscoped electronic-broadcasts (in any of various forms) can also affect the
choice of concepts in terms of which one thinks. Folks unfamiliar with the power of concept-sets to
leave blind spots in our awareness (as well as to manipulate neolithic-feelings) may be especially vulnerable to this effect.
Examples of "broadcasts willy-nilly" (i.e. communications to everyone regardless of their mandate) that often do this include:
- xenophobic, fiscal, and/or territorial threat broadcasts,
- health-risk warnings not accompanied by observational data,
- cartoonifications of individual people as well as lifeform types, etc.
For this reason
education in most fields should likely include an explicit discussion of
tools for choosing one's concepts and models, as well as the more reliably covered model-based skills of e.g. informal reasoning and algorithmic implementation.
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