Dear Rich,
If you did not hear the following NPR report on minor league baseball pay scales and their relationship to a recent federal law, I think it will interest you, not only for its "baseball content" but for the "insinuated story" of how American capitalism -- and its increasingly puppet government -- is making the United States an ever more more mean-spirited, if not cruel, place.
NPR: Fight Against Low, Low Pay In Minor League Baseball Continues Despite New Obstacles
An element of Ken Burns' "Baseball" that impressed me as much as his focus on the sport itself was how "race" and "labor" issues were a continual background presence.
Contextualization is "everything."
Without contextualization, any epistemological fragment taken "in isolation" may be "technically true" but substantively false.
I think it is fair to say that a fundamental difference (perhaps THE fundamental difference) between educated people and uneducated people is that the latter deliberately de-contextualize issues to make it appear that shattered shards of "truth" are "the whole truth," whereas educated people understand that the whole range of interactive truths is "everything."
In this regard, Trevor Noah's recent monologue responding to the French ambassador who complained about his reference to the French World Cup team as "Africa's Team" illustrates Noah's surpassing insight and brilliance.
Trevor Noah Responds To French Ambassador's Criticism. (This Paean To Contextualization Is Brilliant)
The profoundest truths only emerge in context.
Out of context, small truths are Big Lies.
Paz contigo,
Alan
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