The Chasm

 

And then the clincher: "The problem is we don't know what to say to them."

 

That's the chasm.

 

Ooh, I like that!  I went with The Brink, which in my mind implies a foggy unknown, but chasm is much sharper; it makes me think of a dark, bottomless fall.

 

Of course, don't count on the aggressive, position-craving leaders of the world to suggest they don't have all the answers or at least, aren't the best people to beat the bushes and scare the answers up.  To do otherwise would be against their character.

 

But the answer is here, now - in bits and fragments, emerging at every level in the least coordinated of ways possible.

 

The dots are being connected, though, and the individuals are finding themselves both part of something greater than themselves and mighty.

It's an incredibly frustrating, exciting time to be alive - like a kid before Christmas.  There are good things at the bottom of the chimney - they just won't come from where you expect them to.