OVERVIEW Many people accept that we are a tiny speck in the vast universe. We’re struggling mortals on an obscure planet located in a second-rate galaxy among billions of other galaxies. So how important can we really be? In our western culture, we’ve decided that the worth of a person is determined on the basis of how much society is willing to pay for his services. In the athletic world, it’s not the worth of the person we applaud, it’s how much we can get from him in terms of applause and how