Podcasts · The Big Think Interview

A philosopher's guide to escaping your own echo chamber

· 45 min

Episode A philosopher's guide to escaping your own echo chamber

0:00 44:46

Philosopher Jonny Thomson walks through Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 3 conditions for the kind of stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity.

He shows how each one shows up today, from AI answering our moral questions to political parties enforcing loyalty over conviction.

The episode on the publisher’s site (opens in a new tab)

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them. Explicit shows are for adult profiles only, and children’s profiles hear only children’s shows. More about this list.