6/30/2023 0 Comments The wisdom pyramid brett mccracken![]() ![]() We assert as facts what we feel to be true, and when someone challenges us, we turn it back on them, because how dare they question the validity of our feelings? To have one’s felt truth invalidated is to have one’s very identity dismissed. “Our overstimulated brains are becoming weaker, less critical, and more gullible at a time in history when we need them to be sharper than ever.” ( ) Meanwhile, as we are consumed by the ‘far away’ dramas of our social media spaces, we neglect the tangible realities of our immediate place-the local news, proximate debates, and immediate problems we could more meaningfully address.” ( ) “We can easily come to the point where we spend hours attending to headlines about things that will never affect us, debates about things we know little about, and problems we cannot solve. “humans have struggled with contentment: we want more than what we have, and we want it now.” ( ) Using the illustration of a Wisdom Pyramid, he points readers to more lasting and reliable sources of wisdomnot for their own glorification, but ultimately for God’s. ![]() “Oxford Dictionaries declared ‘post-truth’ the international word of the year in 2016, defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’” ( ) Logos Research Subscription for Schools. ![]()
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