This past year was jam packed with news of all sorts. Some was surprising, some of it was expected, while other news seemed to either be another dot to connect or an outlier dot to be connected later.

We even got news from time to time which even in today’s world could be considered bizarre or surreal.

Suffice it to say, were we receiving the current news of today just 15 years back, the financial and social worlds would have been in outright panic. Not so today, the sheep are sound asleep even while a few well intending herders are sounding the alarm. The populace in general have become dumbed down, beaten down, and barely able to read past whatever headline it happens to be for the day. Let’s call the condition “comfortably numb”.