If It's Real Why Doesn't It Feel That Way?
The question "If it's real, why doesn't it feel that way?" captures a belief that what we've been fed by "them" is really not real. Too vague? Okay, we're drifting into a kind of head space here that could make us dance on the edge of sanity-insanity if we're not careful. But upon second thought, the sentence does capture an ongoing theme of these posts, doesn't it? But instead of simply droning on about this, we instead will bring in some thoughts from a source we've found intelligent and insightful over the years, Charles Hugh Smith. We'll see things from his perspective. That perspective, added to our own, will ideally enlighten us more about this "feeling" some of us (most of us?) may be experiencing. His thoughts, and therefore his writing, tends to be well organized. In this case, he begins with a "top down" perspective (bold in original): We all know that geopolitics, the stock market, AI, the unemploymen...
