With increasing frequency we are seeing attention spans decrease, swaying incoherently from one curated narrative to the next, often irrational and logically inconsistent, to align with the "current thing" that establishment officials and their obedient talking heads on the 'tell-lie-vision' proselytize.

The new "current thing" takes the place of the old "current thing" in a seemingly never-ending game of Simon Says: Empire Edition. In just a month's time we've seen virtue signalers exchange Ukrainian flags for Pride Flags, and COVID hysteria for monkeypox hysteria, with a smattering of gun control hypocrisy in between; shifting back and forth from "No one needs an AR-15!" to "Weapons for Ukraine!", and "all cops are racist!" to "Only cops should have guns".

All aided and abetted by an establishment media all too willing to participate in the degradation of common sense so long as it bolsters their abysmal ratings. It is tiresome for the intellectually competent.

But under the fanfare of these ridiculous charades a number of actually important news stories are either being ignored or at the very least obfuscated in favor of these insufferable ineptitudes.

Here are five stories you're missing while obsessing over the "current thing".