Send us a text Most people aren’t overwhelmed because life is too hard; they’re overwhelmed because their world is too big. In this episode of the Intellectual Freedom Podcast, Dr. David Hopkins breaks down why modern life is emotionally crushing us and how to reclaim your sanity by shrinking your sphere of focus. We live in a culture where we know everything about everyone, everywhere, all the time, and the human brain was never designed for that level of input. Drawing from Stoic philo...
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Send us a text Most people aren’t overwhelmed because life is too hard; they’re overwhelmed because their world is too big. In this episode of the Intellectual Freedom Podcast, Dr. David Hopkins breaks down why modern life is emotionally crushing us and how to reclaim your sanity by shrinking your sphere of focus. We live in a culture where we know everything about everyone, everywhere, all the time, and the human brain was never designed for that level of input. Drawing from Stoic philo...
#132: Your Brain Has Been Rewired—And They Called It Entertainment
Intellectual Freedom Podcast
29 minutes
2 months ago
#132: Your Brain Has Been Rewired—And They Called It Entertainment
We live in an age where distraction isn’t an accident—it’s the business model. In this episode, Dr. David D. Hopkins takes you inside Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and exposes how our attention, curiosity, and even our capacity to think have been quietly hijacked by the entertainment culture we call “media.” Postman warned us: the danger wasn’t censorship—it was amusement. And forty years later, the prophecy has come true. Dr. Hopkins unpacks the first three chapters of Amusing Ou...
Intellectual Freedom Podcast
Send us a text Most people aren’t overwhelmed because life is too hard; they’re overwhelmed because their world is too big. In this episode of the Intellectual Freedom Podcast, Dr. David Hopkins breaks down why modern life is emotionally crushing us and how to reclaim your sanity by shrinking your sphere of focus. We live in a culture where we know everything about everyone, everywhere, all the time, and the human brain was never designed for that level of input. Drawing from Stoic philo...