2 Complicated 2 Discuss

I actually read those words today, in a "discussion," about photo-video parameters in computer uses.
It seems there are many variables: HD TV or regular TV; 16:9 widescreen TV or 4:3 traditional profile ratio; out on TV (which uses rectingular pixels) or output on computer screens (which uses square pixels); and not to mention frames per second, image resolution, varied International formats, etc. 

It made me think of our current political entanglements and a joke about a lost car driver asking for directions and being told: 
"You can't get there from here!?"

Fortunately, since the TV format discussion was scientific it had to come up with a proposed solution to understand the problem.

The solution?

The proposed solution in the TV format discussion was to break the problem down into manageable and understandable components.

As I continued along this thread it also struck me that it was useful to: 
         1) Know where you were coming from; specifically, in this TV case, what precise type of video material was I generating. What were, precisely, all it's specific parameters.
        2)  What output/outcome did I want?

It struck me that these ideas would also be useful for political problem solving as well as a host of other issues. 
            Que no?