Blessed are the generalists

In a world that is so fractured, it is often difficult to be able to have and maintain a “30,000 feet view.” We all tend to be absorbed by the immediacy of the action and the louder or brighter details. We also have difficulties integrating a variety of events and grasping how all of them relate to each other. In short, we always end up gravitating towards viewing, analyzing and judging the isolated occurrence and the specialized knowledge. The younger we are, the more likely we are to fall into that trap as we are infatuated by what we like best and it's only when we grow older and these personal passions subside that we accept to see a bit farther and begin to connect the dots. This universal interconnection makes it soon impossible to see self-standing events and soon we grow into the generalists we need to be, in spite of the way our media chops up its news, its findings and its conclusions...