Tom & Alissa

I read this short clip in Brew Cultures weekly email, which came from a Relevant Magazine article by often film critic Brett McCracken. It’s certainly where the battle’s being lost:

Our world today, however “flat” or “global” it may be, does not seem to encourage big-picture thinking. The ocean of information that surrounds us is easier than ever to navigate, but harder and harder to grasp on a holistic level. We are always three clicks away from any fact or figure or answer we may want; we are the most informed, mediated, equipped, positively-reinforced generation ever, and so why are we retreating into our iPod-capsulated, ethnocentric, blissfully-ignorant zones of comfort? Is it just too daunting to make the most of our information overload, quiet and focus our minds and try to answer the big questions?…What we lack today is a mind for making connections. We have all the tools for hyperconnectivity and every resource for every fact and truth as yet discovered by humankind. But in this overwhelming vastness of puzzle pieces and pixels, we are too fatigued and apathetic — or perhaps too skeptical — to try to pull back and see the immense picture that emerges when things start clicking together.