In journalism we long ago "got into it" regarding perspective and reality. In anthropology some of the same debates quietly raged. Over the years people seem to have used perspective like a tool. Argument about perspective seems to have taken center stage to issues of omission and other manipulations of "news" and so what all we're doing. We, on the whole, for example, got better at knowing the difference between PR and reality of situation.
It's interesting that at the end of an administration on the hill but before a new one has arrived the "news" is full of perspective and opinion. Both chock full of bias and even some wild imaginings. Some of that is true about us and some of it is conjecture.
Hearing from a random sampling of Mexicans, for example, to media-tab Trump's personality as "unpredictable" really speaks more to some other things than it does Trump's personality. There's political strategy for instance, rarely discussed like a futbol team's game plan. There's also all of America in a state of jostling, maybe repositioning, around "issue". Before a democracy comes to resolution about anything there's a lot of bluster and analysis and landing technique. There's difference and discussion. In America this really does checkmate dictatorship. And there's always revelations regarding who pay dat?!
The sources of funding are just as important in equasion with "policy" and law...though "credit" and willy-nilly printing of dollars has affected that reality.
During times like this a lot of issues--stuff in the pile of working on--gets called "crisis" but very often the crisis part comes from like getting people elected and walking away; a sort of disengagement instead of working through the reality of situation.
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