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The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World QUOTES

The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World QUOTES

1 " In the competitive landscape of the digital age, the “food” of information is not getting more nutritious; it’s veering in the direction of junk food. Doritos and Skittles will always get more clicks than spinach. And so we walk down the buffet line of social media snacks and online junk food, daily gorging ourselves to the point of gluttony. Unsurprisingly, it is making us sick. "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

2 " [Man] was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand . . . He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.6 "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

3 " spectacle resistance”: “Our lazy eyes and incurious gaze are happily fed by the spectacle makers. We no longer seek out new spectacles; new spectacles seek us out. "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

4 " We’re all susceptible to the path of least cognitive resistance: selecting sources that harmonize with our existing beliefs and don’t complicate our paradigms or rile us up. "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

5 " The antidote to dangerous distractibility is purpose, focus, and intention. Proverbs 4:25 says, “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” This is wisdom in contrast to the unwise woman of folly, who “does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it” (Prov. 5:6). "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

6 " Or there is James 1:19—a verse that, if heeded, would prevent all manner of grief in today’s world (but would also probably put social media out of business): “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

7 " Never has the devil’s work been easier in the area of novelty obsession. "

― Brett McCracken , The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World