I found the first section of the book the most useful, as McCracken correctly diagnosed the cause of our sicknesses with social media. McCracken offers many insights about information consumption I did not know before. Overall, The Wisdom Pyramid is easy to understand and apply. The book concludes with a picture of what life will look like if we diligently seek wisdom. These are information gluttony (eating too much), perpetual novelty (eating too fast), and “look within” autonomy (eating only what tastes good to me). But first, he explains three bad consumption habits that are making us sick.
In the second section of the book, McCracken devotes a chapter to each source and explains how they supply us with wisdom. The pyramid has six sources: The Bible, the Church, nature, books, beauty, and the Internet/social media. It goes from the most enduring to the most fleeting, the most to the least mediated by God.
Like the food pyramid, the wisdom pyramid follows a hierarchical structure. Inspired by the classic food pyramid, the wisdom pyramid is a visual and practical aid to distinguish sources of knowledge according to their conduciveness to wisdom. Therefore, McCracken created the wisdom pyramid to develop a healthy diet of knowledge that will lead to wisdom. And it begins with the information we consume. As believers, who are the salt and light of the world, it is critical we become wiser to proclaim God’s truth.
We live in a sick society that calls good evil and evil good. Gaining wisdom is not, however, an end itself it is a means to an end. We need a diet comprised of lasting, reliable sources of wisdom rather than fleeting, untrustworthy information that bombards us today a diet heavy on what fosters wisdom and low on what fosters folly.” McCracken says, “To become wise in the information age-where opinions, soundbites, diversions, and distractions are abundant, but wisdom is scarce-we need to be more discerning about what we consume. The premise of the book is that Christians need to improve their knowledge intake diet to become wiser. To help Christians become better consumers, Brett McCracken wrote, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World. As a result, we have become rich in knowledge but poor in wisdom. From the moment we wake, we spend endless hours scrolling our social media feeds, listening to podcasts, reading articles, catching up on the latest controversies, and more.
Many of us are addicted to information consumption.
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