“We have now sunk to a depth where the restatement of the obvious is the duty of intelligent men.” — George OrwellUnlike children, who often surprise parents with their simple logic, adults have the propensity to over-think things. So often, the answers we seek are directly in front of us, but we fail to see them because they are too obvious. Politicians take advantage of this nearsightedness when they distract us with hoards of information labeled as fact, but in the end, it doesn’t really give us an accurate picture of anything.