A threshold has been crossed.
New Horizons.
In Manchester, we should have been anticipating this weekend more than any other - the newly crowned richest club in the world versus the second richest club in the world AND Red Scouse against Red Manc.
But IT didn't happen.
During the Anfield game, we had the sound turned down while we concentrated on analysis of other markets in other countries.
As for the 'keenly anticipated' Eastlands Extravaganza, a cycle round the deserted streets of the city was infinitely preferable.
Barcelona v Santander? Even though we were trading on it, a rewatching of the movie "What The Fuck Do We Know" was far more tempting.
I did watch the First Half of the Stoke match because I felt like I should pay some attention to their long-throw strategy as it impacts upon player evaluations in our Holistic Sabermetrics Model. As soon as the Half Time whistle sounded, Shimano shoes and another couple of hours on the bike.
Even the events that could be described as a spectacle - Real Madrid's 4-3 win over Numancia and Dortmund's pull back from 0-3 down in one of the bitterest derbies, for example - just did not have any impact.
So what?
Who cares?
You do your work.
You trade your markets.
You send out information to clients.
You issue instructions to colleagues for the in-running trading.
You work on near-future profits.
You switch off.
It has finally reached the stage where none of this matters anymore.
And not just to myself and my Trading Team.
This is a global effect.
The demise of football is irrelevant.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and the dramatic last-minute saving of Merrill Lynch - there are now only two independent investment banks (are monopolies an issue when the said monopoly is caused by the deconstruction of the entire capitalist edifice?) - is also irrelevant. It is simply the next step on the road to the Recession/Depression that awaits.
The fact that the Evil Empire has 730 military bases around the world and the further fact that fully 42% of the tax base in the US is spent by the Pentagon - its the cost of all those guns donated to the Georgians prior to the invasion of Ossetia, plus the additional expense of utilising US private security firms to lead the invasion, that sort of thing - is also sadly irrelevant.
On a personal level, my work life has never been so rewarding or exciting. This is equally irrelevant.
In the September 6th issue of The Economist, the Science and Technology section was entirely given over to climate change and geo-engineering.
Five years ago, The Economist claimed that any climatic change was not caused by mankind.
They have moved their position considerably.
A full U-turn, in fact.
"...human produced climate change is very real indeed" we are now informed.
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