# Space Revolution Ep. 29: The Paragon of Information

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-07-30T05:42:51+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/space-revolution-ep-29-the-paragon-of-information/
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## Resource

Chris Paul joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for what turns into a lively cross examination, with Chris Paul playing the role of skeptic in chief and asking the ground level questions everyone's been thinking. What is this tool actually for, and how do you define truth in the first place? Chris Ponder introduces the "Paragon," his model for understanding the information environment the same way a classroom globe helps you understand the Earth, and the conversation winds through orientation, epistemology, and how to build discernment tools without creating a surveillance state. Expect a genuinely sharp back and forth, comparisons to Bitcoin's Oracle problem, and a closing turn toward faith and first principles that ties the whole framework together. It's the most rigorously questioned episode yet, and that tension is what makes it work.

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