Information

How do you know when information is valuable to you for one reason or another?

How do you know when information is valuable to someone else?

What do you already know about the history of well-informed kindness and its association with well-informed investing? 

How do you prefer investing in an intelligently kind culture, and where?

Perhaps you are not interested in investing in such a culture.

What usually informs your approach to investing?

What is your preferred approach to assessing your investments, including your investments of time? 

How do you distinguish between the well-informed public and the ill-informed public?

What are the philanthropic services you provide to the well-informed public?

What are the philanthropic services you provide to the ill-informed public?

What informs your preferred approach to initiating investigations in particular situations?

Long-term investigations conducted on behalf of Civility Today have revealed that most people do not understand, or appreciate, civility and democracy particularly well.

The investigations have been, and continue to be, conducted through the International Training Centre for the Harmonious Interplay of Beauty, Understanding and Magnificence.

How do you distinguish between the formal acquisition of information and the informal accumulation of facts and opinions?

What are the goals you are seeking to achieve with other people over the months ahead, whether formally or informally, and why? 

What are the goals you are seeking to achieve alone, and why, and how?

What is your preferred approach to the management of information, and what do you do when that approach is in conflict with other people's preferences?

What are the principles you prefer to follow when addressing any sort of conflict and how do you communicate information about those principles?

How do you know you communicate your attitude towards information with honesty and courtesy?

Yet honesty is much more than the communication of truth, authenticity and credibility.  It involves the decision-making process associated with timeliness.

How do you know you provide information in a timely way?

How do you know you seek information in a timely way?

How do you know you avoid providing or seeking misinformation?

Perhaps you often seek out 'information' matching your biases.

Perhaps your communications are mostly related to those biases.

What do you already know about information systems and misinformation systems, and how did you acquire that information?

What do you know about the management of information systems within organisations and between organisations?

What do you know about the fair and unfair uses of information? 

How do you assess privacy in relation to fair and unfair uses of information?

Civility is always consistent with fairness.

What do you know about organising and using information fairly?

And from whose point(s) of view do you usually assess fairness, and how do you acquire the necessary information with which to do so?

How do you usually acquire information about necessity itself?

What are your current needs and how have you informed yourself about them?

How do you usually prefer to communicate your needs to other people, and when?

How do you currently prefer people to communicate their needs to you?

How do you usually assess intentions and expectations in relation to the provision and acquisition of information and misinformation?

Perhaps you enjoy hunting for information or merely following your curiosity.

How do you usually acquire information to help you to assess your choices and possible preferences?

You may have noticed that the most public version of Civility Today is an information and education service more than a news service.  It does, of course, also contain artistic elements, as to be expected in this part of the Internet.

How have you acquired information about the Adelaidezone, and for what purpose(s)?

Do you usually equate ignorance with a lack of information and/or a lack of time and/or a lack of interest and/or a lack of suitable education?

You may associate the acquisition of information with the experience of gratification.  You may regard delayed gratification of your informational desires as unwarranted and possibly even cruel.

How do you usually assess information in relation to understanding?

How have you been investing in importantly useful information over the past few months, and for what reasons?

How do you usually assess information in relation to importance?

If you have been investing in useful inventions, how have facts and opinions informed that process?

How do you know when an opinion is consistent or inconsistent with the relevant information?

How do you know when relevant information is inconsistent with an influential opinion?

How do you usually assess relevance? 

How do you usually assess influence?

Where do you usually locate truth?

You have had potential access to quality information and quality educational locations online for at least a little while in recent years, if you have been adequately attentive and adequately fortunate.

In the International Political Reform School, for example, you will have had the chance to acquire quality information associated with the fact that governments are usually filled with liars.

If you have factual information to the contrary about the majority of politicians in the majority of societies, please provide it appropriately in the comment facility below.

How do you usually tell whether information is factual or otherwise?

How do you usually tell whether information is sensitive or otherwise?

Where have you usually acquire information about fiction and about fallacies and about dangerously misguided beliefs? 

What is the important of truth to you, and how do you know?

How do you distinguish between sensible infotainment and sensationalist lures?

Perhaps you mainly regard yourself as a consumer of information and/or entertainment rather than as a producer.

How do you assess your own actions in terms of culture and cultural information?

When have you known the information you have acquired has required your urgent action?

When have you known the information you have acquired has required your priority preparations?

When have you failed to take important facts seriously, and what have been the consequences?