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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. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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