The Big Picture Analysis

Understanding the importance of ‘the big picture’ is the next step we as a society need to take in order to better understand the world. The idea of ‘the big picture’ alone is vague and misleading, however I use the term in a way to represent the idea of understanding all sides of an issue. In this case, human rights is the issue. There is one quote in particular that fully explains what it means to understand all sides of human rights and why it should be our next move toward greatness. This quote is extremely important to me for many reasons and is also very closely knit with the curricular of my government class this year. “You cannot talk solely of human rights in terms of torture and imprisonment and killing. True, this is the gravest
As I stated previously this quote talks about how we mustn’t forget about the underrated issues in any given topic. In chapter 4 of The Challenge of Democracy it states that a public opinion being “the collected attitudes of citizens concerning a given issue or question.” Public opinion is swayed by many different factors including mass media. The book states that more often than not people rely on some sort of a mass media outlet for all of their information (Janda, Kenneth). These types of outlet sources generally cover the biggest part of the story in order to keep viewers interested. “In order to survive, [the media] is increasingly turning to other strategies such as entertainment, titillation, scandal mongering, and spreading fear,” which means they are only looking to tell the stories that will sell (Mass Media). Adolfo’s quote is saying that we as a society cannot and will not fix the problems of the world just by knowing a little information about the most intense part of an entire problem. In order to fix a situation we need to be looking at all parts and we need to be vocal about all parts without undermining any single one. We as human beings need to look for other information, we cannot rely solely on what the media tells us because we have to dig deeper to get the real answers, not just the ones that keep the ratings
There are many big name interest groups that have a lot of impact on the government and as a result, also have a big impact on the people. Although these groups are important, there are also citizen groups, which are much smaller and not motivated by economic self-interest. These groups stand for things like preservation of the environment, protection of the consumer, family values, and many more that don’t necessarily appeal to everyone but are extremely important to the people involved (Janda, Kenneth). This relates to Adolfo’s quote because torture and imprisonment are big issues that society as a whole is worried about, but that does not make the smaller more local issues any less important to the people involved. Even though, just like the citizen groups, they do not get much recognition they still need support to move