Is there a single word to describe someone who disregards the fine details of something and only focuses on what they believe is the bigger picture? I'm looking for a pejorative connotation similar to "pedantic" which is the inverse: focusing on small details while ignoring the bigger picture.
I've tried searching here, Google, and Reddit but couldn't find anything specifically about this. I considered "ignorant", "didactic", but those are not quite right.
Is there a single word to describe someone who disregards the fine details of something and only focuses on what they believe is the bigger picture? I'm looking for a pejorative connotation similar to "pedantic" which is the inverse: focusing on small details while ignoring the bigger picture.
A "hedgehog" is someone who knows "one big thing" as opposed to someone with the thinking style of a "fox" who knows many little things. Hedgehogs focus on the big picture because this picture is sufficient to discern their "big idea" which this person thinks is all that really matters. From the link:
The Hedgehog Concept is based on an ancient Greek parable that states, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
In the parable, the fox uses many strategies to try to catch the hedgehog. It sneaks, pounces, races, and plays dead. And yet, every time, it walks away defeated, its tender nose pricked by spines. The fox never learns that the hedgehog knows how to do one big thing perfectly: defend itself.
Philosopher Isaiah Berlin took this parable and applied it to the modern world in his 1953 essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox." Berlin divided people into two groups: foxes and hedgehogs.
See also as an additional source: National Public Radio explaining the same terms.
As I have seen it used, the term hedgehog" is pejorative to roughly the same extent that "pedantic" is, i.e. very mildly (but this could be my fox-esque bias).
In some circumstances you could use sciolist.
Your Dictionary
sciolist:
One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
similarly:
Collins
sciolism
the practice of opinionating on subjects of which one has only superficial knowledge
Because these definitions involve superficial, they have negative connotations.
For example:
Cambridge
superficial:
If something written or said is superficial, it does not show any real understanding of the subject and does not include many details
