Headline-grabbing national indicators, such as GDP and inflation, conceal all sorts of localised gains and losses that are less commonly discussed by national politicians.
Geoengineering is another distraction beloved by technocrats, apparently because they can imagine big, centralised technological innovation, but not the impact of countless small, localised changes.
The world will only feel like a safe place once the unfortunate sufferer remembers their original injury, localises it and separates it off from modern-day anxieties.
I love the choice in a big shopping centre; I don't think it replaces localised shopping so a nice boutique in a local high street I think always has a place.
So actually that independent dynamic is playing out in different ways in different places and because it's so localised, it's quite difficult to work out what that means to the general election.