I'm of the opinion that a truly educated man educates himself. And a truly educated man shares what he knows, if for no other reason than to make the knowledge aware to himself.
Given the wars and the determination of the fortunate to keep things in our current lunatic arrangements as long as possible, I came across this.
This Luhman character saw society as a multidimensional collection of interacting systems.
Which means nothing if I don't explain it. Consider scientists create an new invention which is described by its actual physical characteristics. Among themselves they talk about its physical properties. Length width and such. Businessmen take the invention and transform it into something else. They describe it in a language they understand. In their 'system' their 'code' is profit and loss and only monetary value is considered. The invention is seen through this new profit/loss lens. From their lens a 'commodity' is created and only the utility of the commodity to produce profit is seen.
Every system has a 'code' which defines how things are understood inside the system. A basic fact needed for essential communication and system survival. This video explains the code of mass media is 'information', and not truth (not so directly as here because the education system likes it that way).
We move between systems. Between systems which each understands objective reality as suits the system. Consequently we live in a tower of babble in a society at cross purposes with a collective autopoiesis. Being the social creatures that we are, we are unaware of our shifts between system realities. We shift realities all the time. Like fish unaware of water, we are unaware of the contradictions we swim in. Or too comfortable with them.
Mass media attempts to define 'what is known to be known'. It is one of many operationally closed, autopoietically self-reproducing, evolving communication systems that construct reality in the mode of second-order observation. Another such system is the academic system which distorts reality in it's own particular way to perpetuate itself.
Teaching people to self-educate, the only path to deep knowledge. Is something not in the best interest of an education system. Only particular educators with a twinkle in their eye ever want this. The mission of education is transmuted into : 'make good members of society', Well educated in: what is known to be known and not one fucking thing else.
Beware thy system memberships.
The autopoiesis of social subsystems destroys the autopoiesis of the whole.