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Positive Values In what sense are the Internet and social media potentially valuable for wisdom? We know the many downsides to online life. What are the upsides? In my view there are at least three. 1. Access The Internet has removed barriers to accessing knowledge and education. If the idea of a public library (free access to books) was one small step in the direction of democratizing knowledge, the Internet was a giant leap. Today, if you have Internet access on your phone or computer, you have history’s most potent library card. You have access to all the wise sages of the past—from P...

Brett McCracken Crossway. 192 pp. In an effort to help us consume a more balanced, healthy diet of information, Brett McCracken has created the “Wisdom Pyramid.” Inspired by the food pyramid model, the Wisdom Pyramid challenges us to increase our intake of enduring, trustworthy sources (like the Bible) while moderating our consumption of less reliable sources (like the internet and social media). At a time when so much of our daily media diet is toxic and making us spiritually sick,  The Wisdom Pyramid suggests that we become healthy and wise when we reorient our lives around G...

How to Weather the Worsening Trust Crisis For decades in Western culture (especially since the 1960s), we’ve seen a slow deterioration of trust and a brewing epistemological crisis. We’ve increasingly not known how to know, whose authority to trust, and where we can look for truth. In recent years, the internet’s toxic buffet of fake news, conspiracy theories, echo chambers, and confirmation bias deepened the crisis. But 2020 took it to another level entirely.  The recently released 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer shows that 2020 saw precipitous trust declines. The fascinating report des...