There’s a lot of information out there in today’s world. When before we could claim ignorance, we can now easily assert overwhelm. How do we separate fact from fiction?

It may well prove to be a defining element of our time, the Information Age. So far it has complicated organization and deepened tribal affiliations.

But we have agency. We can counter this confusion by adopting the largest unified perspective possible: the universe exists on enormous scales of space and time, and we are all inhabiting one pinprick out of all the possibilities; we are one species on an incredible planet full of other life; and we all want the same things in this existence we call life. When we start from there, we can wade the through the mass of information, and we can begin to change the world.