July 1928 - Considerations on mass media "[...] A flu is new developed over the last five or ten years of our lives, and so far I've seen that has not really taken much account in the education of young people. I intend to talk about the vast and growing power on the masses of film, radio and the popular press and economically. Through these channels central ideas and opinions of a few (comparatively speaking) people become unconsciously the views and opinions of millions . This influence can be good, but just as easily be bad.
The danger is that people get used to having their own ideas and not to use prefabricated by others more than his own opinion and his own conscience. An educated country in half, without force character of the individuals who make up his people, is not a healthy country. [...]"
Robert Baden-Powell, July 1928
(emphasis mine)
July 2008, 80 years later. The few who still have their own opinion and their conscience are left without words, without nothing to add, knowing that what is feared by BP is sadly true and on a massive scale ...
The German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is best known in astronomy to be the author of a splendid work on sheets "Harmonia Macrocosmic" intended as atlas published for the first time in the second half seventeenth century. 
