Based on concepts from his book The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World, Brett McCracken teaches about how to become wise in a world that offers too much information, too quickly. He shares three things making us sick:
1. We have too much information.
2. We receive it too quickly.
3. The information is too focused on the individual (self).
McCracken counsels that, instead of going with the flow of our post-truth world, we should go online for a purpose, stay online only as long as we need to, and then go offline.
In This Episode
00:00 – Introduction and purpose
01:52 – The epistemological crisis and its historical context
05:07 – Impact of the epistemological crisis in 2020
06:55 – Sources of our sickness: Too much information
09:39 – Sources of our sickness: Too fast information
13:28 – Sources of our sickness: Too focused on me
17:11 – The wisdom pyramid: Introduction and foundational elements
21:10 – The Bible: God’s direct revelation
24:43 – The church: God’s presence among his people
29:23 – Nature: God’s creation
35:34 – Books: Focused attention and critical thinking
39:49 – Beauty: art and worship
44:03 – Internet and social media: Intentionality and purpose
Resources Mentioned:
- The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World by Brett McCracken
- The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
- Uncomfortable by Brett McCracken
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