Our culture continues to split and silo itself off in sealed echo chambers of our own making. We crave that which only we agree with; discard that which does not comply with our own biases.

We seek solace in comforting conspiracy theories which, like religion, envisage everything being part of some grand plan by a master puppeteer instead of confronting the cold, hard fact that the world is chaotic and nobody is truly in control.

The art of respectful disagreement is gone. Nothing remains but disunity and mutual suspicion. But it doesn't have to remain this way...