4. Justin Bonanno: What the Internet Is Doing to Your Soul

Illumined Wellness Podcast · Jul 16, 2026 · 1h 10m

What is the internet actually doing to the human person? Ave Maria University

professor Justin Bonanno joins Andrew to trace how every major communications

technology has reshaped what it means to be human.

- The "tech idiot paradigm" — why saying "it's just a tool" keeps us blind

to what technology actually costs us

- Walker Percy and Susan Sontag saw the photograph problem coming long before

Instagram existed

- Why curiosity itself can become a vice, and how Aquinas's virtue of

temperance applies to how much content we consume

- The concept of discarnation — how media pulls us out of our…