Show me how worthy you are of my consideration. Show me your substance. ARE YOU THE PRIDE OF THE PALIO? Are you the empty one?

Whatever it is you do for work is supposed to help you not get too drawn into the false narratives pushed by the circus barkers and carpetbaggers.

Modern technology has made it possible for each of us to zoom the world in and out at will. It's not easy to pull out from things tempting to brood (or fixate on) and a few thousand years of habitual reliance on the town crier, published authors and our schoolteachers doesn't make it easy to adapt to the new paradigm.

It's rather like living anywhere and a bit like nowhere at the same time even recent as fifty years ago. That was considered worthy of calling modern times as information overload even that far back. For lots of people booze and or drugs work. But you know. Most of the larger world isn't like that anymore. It's going to take a few generations for most of the rest of humanity to take its collective head out of the frame they're stuck in. Red pill blue pill and all that silliness. Drink the koolaid nonsense. Lol