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Learning Against Learning: From Cardinal Wolsey to the Age of AI A Historical and Conspiratorial Analysis of Information Overload and Ordo ab Chao Introduction In the early 16th century, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII, recognized a dangerous new force unleashed by the printing press. He described it as “learning against learning”—the phenomenon … Read more

Moving from the Cold War into the digital age, where Wolsey’s phrase learning against learning perfectly describes our “post-truth” reality. Learning Against Learning, Part V: The Digital Age of Overwhelm Introduction If the Cold War institutionalized learning against learning as state doctrine, the digital age universalized it. The rise of the internet, social media, and … Read more

Focusing on the Cold War era, when learning against learning became state doctrine through propaganda and disinformation campaigns. Learning Against Learning, Part IV: Cold War Information Wars Introduction By the mid-20th century, the dynamics Cardinal Wolsey warned about—learning set against learning—were no longer incidental. They had become formalized strategy. The Cold War was not just … Read more

Showing how Wolsey’s principle of learning against learning carried forward into the 19th century with newspapers, telegraphy, and the rise of mass media. Learning Against Learning, Part III: The Industrial Age and Mass Media Saturation Introduction By the 19th century, Cardinal Wolsey’s warning of learning against learning had fully matured into the age of industrialized … Read more

Gnostic Judo Wolsey, the printing press, and the first appearance of learning against learning as a concept. Learning Against Learning, Part I: Cardinal Wolsey and the Printing Press Revolution Introduction In the early 16th century, the English statesman and churchman Cardinal Thomas Wolsey coined a phrase that captures one of the most enduring problems of … Read more