fuzzy on a molar level.

One of the most vexing issues to parse at the moment is the ways in which complexity and expertise are being redefined. Sure, information is the new currency and the permanent "overwhelm" is a function of the welcome democratization that wrests control of the soundbite (and, really, how long did it take for someone to coin the term blogorrhea? this is for the historians of the moment to record), the elevation of the minutiae and the arcane over the profound, the volume against the reduction, the thumbs up and the dumb down... yes, of course -- but all of this feeds into the problem of not knowing where to look. The real problematics of the age becomes: change is not good when you no longer know from what to avert your eyes. The Western dilemma, for lack of a better word, is that which turns public discourse into cultural autism because we cannot bear to look anymore while we are being forced to see.

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