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First there was the War on Drugs.
Then there was the War on Poverty.
And finally there is the granddaddy of them all, the War on Terror.
All mere skirmishes when compared to the most successful war of our time... The War on _Context._
At a time when we have breathtaking access to information relative to our parents before us, we have become a people who don't really give a gosh darn about understanding the vast, rich and multi-dimensional context that surrounds nearly everything in this complicated world we occupy.
This lands us clueless in actually _understanding_ any problem we seek to address.
Relatively speaking, our information today comes at such a low effort cost to us. The whole world is at our fingertips while we sit on our couch with a beer in our hand. In this environment it's probably inevitable that information becomes so easily is devalued. Supply is far outstripping demand.
The arsenal in this war on context:
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* Our sound byte culture that speaks in bumper sticker slogans rather than paragraphs or even pages.
* The legions of people who have essentially made up their mind before examining a single factual reality; thus becoming consummate cherry-pickers of information without a shred of context to support their pre-determined view.
* An understandable overwhelm of information and a desire for more simplicity.
* The ellipse... amazing what an ideologue can do with three little dots; you can make reality conform to your view even if truth is the opposite.
First there was the War on Drugs.
Then there was the War on Poverty.
And finally there is the granddaddy of them all, the War on Terror.
All mere skirmishes when compared to the most successful war of our time... The War on _Context._
At a time when we have breathtaking access to information relative to our parents before us, we have become a people who don't really give a gosh darn about understanding the vast, rich and multi-dimensional context that surrounds nearly everything in this complicated world we occupy.
This lands us clueless in actually _understanding_ any problem we seek to address.
Relatively speaking, our information today comes at such a low effort cost to us. The whole world is at our fingertips while we sit on our couch with a beer in our hand. In this environment it's probably inevitable that information becomes so easily is devalued. Supply is far outstripping demand.
The arsenal in this war on context:
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* Our sound byte culture that speaks in bumper sticker slogans rather than paragraphs or even pages.
* The legions of people who have essentially made up their mind before examining a single factual reality; thus becoming consummate cherry-pickers of information without a shred of context to support their pre-determined view.
* An understandable overwhelm of information and a desire for more simplicity.
* The ellipse... amazing what an ideologue can do with three little dots; you can make reality conform to your view even if truth is the opposite.