bigger than your branch

One way to inject a bit of humility into the kinds of arguments that modern media elicits (by "modern" I'm talking here speech, writing, print, radio and TV as well as the internet) is to recognize that each of us only sees the forest we live in from the branches on which we've spent time. Unfortunately, in most cases the forest we live in extends well beyond our current branch.

Hence even when it's obvious that other observers are missing something, it's probably better if all parties listen to each other, and then pay attention to what nature has to say about what actually works. N'est-ce pas?