Occasionally I feel a pang in reading policy documents; I can't help but think, if this field digested McLuhan more it would be drastically more effective—not even in persuasion, but in preventing the loss (via synopsis) of phenomena that the white paper form itself can't convey.

A different way to put it:

The white paper form works to support a certain form of reasoning.

But the constraints of that very form constrain the ability for practitioners using it to reason about certain phenomena — acutely in mind here is "experience."

I'm not casting aspersions. I am saying we can, should, (and are starting to have?) a shift in the medium of info used for reasoning about this stuff by policymakers. But it involves an acceptance that the current rhetoric/style has shortcomings that CORRELATE WITH the problem.

Less arguing about abstractions; more annotating screenshots.