I hope you don't think I've been ignoring you mate. I went to respond to your message shortly after receiving it, but the reply just kept growing. When it reached essay length I had something of a cathartic moment. I realised that while I've been sending you pieces of information here and there for a very long time, these pieces are disjointed fragments and I've been doing it with a naïve assumption that you were even viewing them through the same lens, let alone piecing t...