/lit/ - Literature

If you want the world to change then either

change yourself to be the kind of person who will change the world

change yourself to believe the world has changed (See Emperor Norton)

change yourself so you don't care any more

I believe the proper terms are Macrocosm for the world and Microcosm for you (or the world inside you).

Information as a linguistic object is a rather undiscerning metaphor. Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination, yet it is much more pervasive in everyday life than most people assume. Our ordinary conceptual system in terms of which we both think and act is fundamentally metaphorical in nature