Disco Ball

Take the Boston marathon bombings. Or the war in Afghanistan. Or gun control. Or the war on grugs. Or any other important contemporary issue like those. If you follow them in the news media--newspaper, TV, online or commentaries from journalists, columnists, TV gurus, military, law enforcement or politicians--you will notice that each finds their own aspect or entry point into the issue to weigh in  on.

To me it's like a disco ball casting thousands facets of light. Each player in the discussion is chasing one of those facets, trying to make sense of its place in the big picture, trying to see a patten, find a solution. But nobody looks up. Nobody sees the true source of all these facets.

As a result, they chase them round and round hoping for a resolution, while they are really just running in circles. Or they just ignore them, dancing to a monotonous and numbing beat.