Cracks in the Cloister (A St. Mary's Abbey Podcast)

Episode 7: The Dangers of the Echo Chamber


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In this episode Br. William and Fr. Demetrius discuss the dangers of listening to only people who agree with you.  They discuss how the subjectivization of truth, for example with the phrase “my truth”,  has led to a society that sees any challenge to one's way of thinking to be a challenge to themselves and not merely their ideas.  This echo chamber also seemed to be something pushed slowly by the technologies and their algorithms that we all take for granted. They ultimately decide about the importance of true dialog to discover objective truth.

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Cracks in the Cloister (A St. Mary's Abbey Podcast)By Fr. Demetrius Thomas OSB & Br. William McMillan OSB