Given we are all subjective, sorting it out is an editing process and that is what makes it interesting. We would be happy little tadpoles, if everything was on the up and up and there was nothing being hidden.

The irony is that even the distractions are distractions.

Ask yourself, could our capital markets function, if the government wasn't borrowing up trillions in surplus investment money and pouring it down its favorite rat holes? The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth. The reality of which is truly the elephant in the room, but because we are so distracted by the innumerable other shenanigans, no one points it out.

Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is static, the other is dynamic. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old can figure that out, but we have an entire culture built around turning a social contract into a commodity.

What has put humanity at the top of the heap, is that we've been smarter than the rest. If we start acting stupid, it's a long way down.