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Information Glut and Bureaucracy

September 25th, 2024 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

One of the basic human problems we all face, but seldom name as such or even recognize, is managing the information that is available to us. We struggle to recognize this or name it as a problem because in healthy societies much of the sorting is handled imperceptibly by the various institutions that make up the society. Indeed, managing and sorting information is one of the chief tasks of our institutions.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife Joie, their daughter Davy Joy, and sons Wendell, Austin, and Ambrose. Jake's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, Christianity Today, Fare Forward, the University Bookman, Books & Culture, First Things, National Review, Front Porch Republic, and The Run of Play and he has written or contributed to several books, including "In Search of the Common Good," "What Are Christians For?" (both with InterVarsity Press), "A Protestant Christendom?" (with Davenant Press), and "Telling the Stories Right" (with the Front Porch Republic Press).

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