dense facts are frustrating

In class today we dove into the idea of a dense fact.  We've been "dense facting" during the whole semester with things like tea, Pocahontas, and Rockwell's Four Freedoms.  In class we started expanding the idea of a dense fact to people, places, things, or ideas.  This includes both the concrete and the abstract.  We started questioning whether things like climate change or fear could be a dense fact.  We spent less time talking about what the Tea Party is all about, which was disappointing.  I don't think our conversation was even that helpful in figuring out what to write about for our editorial, since it seems like practically anything can be a dense fact.  It shouldn't matter if something is a dense fact or not; if it's interesting, then let's talk about it!  Limiting our analysis to certain images or objects can also limit our thinking, since we're trying to figure our what the dense fact represents or stands for.  Since readings have been most helpful to me in this class so far, I'm going to stick to them and the content they provide, rather than just my opinions about the Tea Party.