The #mainstream#media's constant "On the one hand... on the other..." approach to pretty much every #issue is definitely not helping the general public's apparent endorsement of the #aphorism "For every #complex#problem, there is a simple, easy-to-understand #wrong#answer".
If we want an educated - or at least informed - public, we have to stop over-simplifying the issues and facts, turning them to blenderized pablum, and get people to appreciate that real life isn't simple, black-and-white.
Discovered on Phinney Avenue in #Seattle, the #answer to so many #questions that you probably didn't know you had. You can ask any of the couple of dozen wooden figures climbing, hanging, prancing about on this #tree, and if they don't know, they won't be offended if you move on to somebody else or even to another tree.
I'm getting #tired of #people responding to my "here's the #situation here today, and how the #engineering works out for this #problem" with #hopes and #dreams about how they wish the world was, or #anecdotes about how that problem doesn't exist where they are (which is utterly unlike here) so it doesn't matter.
i opened a bean restaurant (to prove a point) (www.youtube.com)
Answer In Progress serves beans -- and it's actually pretty good