T.J. Stiles had some tweets participating in a discussion on Winston Churchill (Newt Gingrich had triggered it by comparing Trump's work habits to Churchill's, to which some, including Stiles, took issue).
He had this tweet in which he said it was important "to see the whole, real picture". I replied to the tweet, but have had some added thoughts.
"Seeing the whole picture" sounds good, but when you think about the meaning of the word, it's more complicated. A picture, whether painted or photographic, is basically a two-dimensional representation of reality; it's not a 360 degree holographic image. And it's static, representing a moment in time, not a movie showing the lapse of time.
I'm being nitpicky, of course. It's best to look at every corner of a picture, to look up close and stand way back, while remembering the limits of a picture in representing reality.
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