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Biden their time, Wednesday, January 18, 2023, introduction.

Every so often it is needful to step back a few paces and look at the whole chess board

from another angle.

Political junkies can be like cats chasing the laser dot and can be overwhelmed or overloaded

with too much information.

Other folks who do not follow the news all that closely can frequently be just let

along by the headlines or chyrons of stories, stories that have been allowed by the gatekeepers

to become stories.

The end result is pretty much the same, by various devices the narrative is reinforced.

Whether we are shooting the rapids of the news or floating down the lazy river of the news,

at the end of the day we are all still wet.

And having gotten as much as I'm going to get out of that particular metaphor, let me

just say that the range of acceptable opinions settles in around everybody like a dense fog

off the bay.

The narrative you may recall is whatever our society's left brain wants us to believe.

With individuals, the left brain is responsible for rational logical thought.

With societies, the left brain does nothing of the kind.

Societal left brain spent all their time trying to figure out how to get the fed to pump

more methamphetamines into the economy.

You may have noticed that this is the introduction, Winkler, but what is it an introduction

to exactly?

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