I'm 5 chapters into Katherine Paterson's The Invisible Child . Here are a couple of interesting comments about wisdom. She also had a wonderful story about speaking to a crowd of people in SE Asia, listening, and oral tradition.
Wisdom comes from reflection (which takes time and thought)
Paterson quotes Sven Birkerts (author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age 1995) His core fear "is that we are, as a culture, as a species, becoming shallower...we have turned from depth -from the Judeo-Christian premise of unfathomable mystery - and are adapting ourselves to the ersatz security of a vast lateral connectedness. That we are giving up on wisdom..."
Paterson and Birkerts say, "the quiet depth survives ... in art and literature, but experiencing the depth ... is hard work - we must give to the task time and energy and reflection."
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