Let's Blow Shit Out of Proportion

There used to be a big dispute between Washington and Oregon over a couple of trees. Each had laid claim to having the World's largest Sitka Spruce. The trees were very difficult to measure so the debate went on for quite some time.

To folks living in Washington and Oregon, there was a distinct difference between these two trees. To them that arbitrary border drawn on the map and on which side of the line the bigger of the two trees sat actually mattered. To most of the United States, pretty much all of North America, definitely all of South America, and of course Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Austral-Asia, the Pacific Islands, and generally everywhere else, the two trees were in the same fucking place.

Just a matter of how you view the situation.

A while back a big storm took out the tree in Oregon leaving Washington the undisputed victor. Which to the rest of the world is the same fucking place as Oregon. To most of the world the tree is in the same damn place as Disney World and the Statue of Liberty.

Neither of these trees had anything to do with Nixon or the gold standard. Those trees were in California. Not the same place at all!