LANDON: Sorlie, you are changing things. Can't you see that?
SORLIE: Maybe I can't.
Maybe it's like I "can't see the forest for the trees."
The big changes are obvious, sure, but I can't see how individual people are actually benefitting from the top-secret crap I'm again embedded in.
LANDON: Hrrrmm'kay, that makes sense.
Except in your case the metaphor is upside down. You're not seeing the trees because of the forest.
SORLIE: Whatever. It doesn't matter.
LANDON: It matters to me. It's a forest metaphor, and I'm a bear.
SORLIE: A polar bear.
Raised in a giant city.
In the middle of an ocean.
LANDON: Barkeep! My friend isn't drunk enough to agree with me yet!