Thinking of a 'Banner-Avatar' ('Banvatar'?) for this Blog, I'm Reminded of the Origin of #Trivia (which led me to #Quadrivia, which Might be 'How My Brain Kept Me Alive') @Wikipedia @ExciteOnlineEDU #Trivial #Quadrivial #Trivialize
In 'the early days of The Internet' (not back when it was mostly 'nerds hacking into the government network,' but well after it'd become "a thing" ... but 'making money' online still involved more than a little "hacking"), I got into the whole 'traffic-hacking' industry (tricking computers into thinking more people visited your online-content, supposedly to influence more actual readers to read your online-content (by putting it higher on the search-engines' lists, etc.))
As you can see by the banner near the bottom of this page, I'm sorta getting back into that. Definitely-not changing my content to 'the big-money, high-traffic content for which The Internet is well-known,' but rather just 'making my boring old content seem more-popular.'
Like the guys in ancient Rome, who just sat at the crossing of the Three Roads & discussed current events with the tradesmen who were passing-through.
That gives us 'that word' (below-hyperlinked to a blog about Hecate, Trivium of Crossroads)—which is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Trivia” is built on ancient words that mean "Place where the Three Roads Meet (an Open, Public, Common |Place)" (of Little Consequence, also used in a title of the Roman Goddess |Hecate "Goddess of Three Ways" both because of her Triple |Aspect (appearing as Selene, |Diana & |Prosperine) and her status as goddess of |Crossroads).
'Going down the rabbit-hole' on this (and probably also looking-up 'Trivium' and other things on Wikipedia), I 'found that Trivium & Quadrivium were terms that describe' (and I know I'm mixing tenses, but bear-with-me) the Subjects/Arts of a Liberal- (Thinking Skills ... as opposed to Practical- of Medicine, Architecture etc.) Arts Education:
- The Trivium (think Basic Subjects) being:
- Grammar
- Logic
- Rhetoric and The Quadrivium (Advanced, preparatory for the study of Philosophy or Theology):
- Arithmetic (Number)
- Geometry (Number in Space)
- Music (Number in Time)
- Astronomy (Number in 'SpaceTime')
And of-course I think of 'the Liberal Arts degree' many students go after (usually on their way to get a "real" degree like a Ph.D., or a Doctorate or a Master's ... or even a Bachelor-of-Science or -of-... is a Bachelor-of-Arts any better than a Liberal Arts degree? or am I thinking 'Master's of Liberal Arts'? with the motto 'Vis poma fricta cum eo?' (Would you like fries with that?)
I think about 'what I thought college would be'—spending all day at school only taking 'Electives' (what we called 'Specials' in early Elementary-School). I'm seeing now how those sorta 'trained my brain' to cross-apply the lessons I learned in one subject to lots of other subjects as well—particularly how some principles in math helped me compose some music, or how geometry applied to ... playing billiard-pool, which I don't think was one of the electives I took.
The ability to adapt lessons to different subjects ... that might've aided my brain in developing a way to communicate to the rest of my body when the old way was cut.
Back to 'the point I was getting-to': The Guys Hanging-Out at the Crossing of the Three Roads ... they were well-known (like 'regulars at a bar') as 'people who have heard the talk of other passers-by—so others knew that "the regulars" knew "what was going on" around the world.'
'That status' is what I want to get from this ... the same way people want to be 'movie stars' or 'popular athletes' or 'pop-musicians': not necessarily "for the money" (though they'll never refuse all the money & things that come with it), but 'the Esteem' that comes with it.
Back to 'the point I was getting-to': The Guys Hanging-Out at the Crossing of the Three Roads ... they were well-known (like 'regulars at a bar') as 'people who have heard the talk of other passers-by—so others knew that "the regulars" knew "what was going on" around the world.'
'That status' is what I want to get from this ... the same way people want to be 'movie stars' or 'popular athletes' or 'pop-musicians': not necessarily "for the money" (though they'll never refuse all the money & things that come with it), but 'the Esteem' that comes with it.
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