Storytelling is Not an Instant Download: Eric Metaxas and Andrew McDiarmid

In this clip from The Eric Metaxas Show, writer and podcaster Andrew McDiarmid and Eric Metaxas discuss how storytelling is different from today's digital idea of information. "Digital technology is a download," says McDiarmid. "But a good storyteller reveals things in time." Metaxas points out that those who don't believe in a diety tend to take on the role themselves. "If there is no God, we are just atomized bits of information, there's no meaning, no grand narrative. Therefore we can become gods ourselves."

Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/iuqxpmoheyk

This interview is based on McDiarmid's latest article in the New York Post detailing the mental benefits of thinking in the digital age:
https://nypost.com/2022/12/31/the-one-new-years-resolution-to-make-for-2023-per-experts/

Andrew McDiarmid is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. His writing on technology and culture has appeared in the New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Daily Wire, The American Spectator, Technoskeptic Magazine, and elsewhere. He is host of the long-running music and culture podcast Simply Scottish.

Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Bonhoeffer, and many other books, including Is Atheism Dead?, Martin Luther, Amazing Grace, and Letter to the American Church. He has written more than thirty children’s books, including the bestsellers Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving and It’s Time to Sleep, My Love. He is the host of Socrates in the City, and the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Radio Show.