In Chinese parley, you see, we say that it is the plan of heaven that counts. Your own cunning tricks are just that, mere tricks that won’t really get you anywhere.

Not anywhere that matters, that is.

The Chinese expression may sound too fatalistic to some, but my point is that it is a similar concept to the Western idea that somehow the human endeavor is often futile and thankless in the grand scheme of things.

Anyways, just remember that whenever someone says something is so and so in the scheme or larger, greater, grand or overall scheme of things, they mean to say that it is really unimportant, or at any rate less significant when you put it in perspective.

In other words, it looks smaller in the big picture, after you have considered everything and analyzed the matter from all angles.

Or put it another way, you’ll see things more clearly if you care to look beyond the obvious and above your own immediate self interests.

You’ll see more that way.

OK?

Okay, here are media examples to put “the scheme of things” into better perspective:

1. Condemning the Fox News Channel as a warmonger that’s agitating for a U.S. attack on Iran, documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced an “online viral video campaign” Wednesday calling on television news organizations “not to follow Fox down the road to war again.”

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