to speak to America regarding the existential threat we face because we can no longer agree on a shared set of facts, on a shared reality? I don't believe most Americans realize that this is at the core of our division. I don't know what this would look like but it has to be done, and it has to come from credible sources on both ends of the political spectrum, and everyone in between. Now perhaps, those on the edges don't see that it's in their interest to do this, or perhaps they can't even agree, with everything on the line, that there is an objective reality to be learned. We have to educate America on how we dispassionately judge information and determine what are credible sources. And I know the business model of media requires ratings/consumers/customers and our species is drawn to comfort, and disinclined to consider that preciously clung to beliefs might be wrong. Perhaps this is a fool's errand. Sam Harris has repeatedly said that we have two choices, conversation or violence. 

Peter T.