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Logical and critical thinking would be a challenge to those in power, apparently the Trivium had been removed from a classical liberal education some time ago. I learned about the Trivium in an online school long after I left college...

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" may be a case in point.

https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/

Conspiracy surrounds us, "conspiracy theory" seems to be a tactic first used by an "intelligence" agency to discourage those who question the "authorized" narrative.

Free thinking is a gift, that can also be a challenge when it goes counter to main stream culture.