Sports is Easy, Compared to Finance and Politics

    I have read some topics and books that get into heaviness lately. I finished up Mein Kampf a couple months ago, which was hard and a slog, but I think worth it. Now, I am almost halfway through The Art of the Deal, by none other than the 47th president and his partner writer Tony Schwarz, who apparently later regretted it. Famous last misdeeds.

    But if it had not been Schwarz, it likely would have been someone else. And if not Adolph, perhaps it would have been some other German Emperor. Or, if the World War had not damaged the Soviet Russians so much, to the devastating amount of their millions of troops, citizens, and assets, perhaps the U.S.S.R. would have ended up taking much more than they would eventually. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Afghanistan for ten years was enough. Perhaps the Third Reich prevented the Iron Curtain in becoming a huge Iron-gloved Behemoth of Communism encircling the whole Earth. We could all be living and suffering like the Chinese or North Koreans or the 2020s despotic Putinland Russia of what nightmares they go through now, and make themselves wretched and failing projected across the would-be free world as we are now. 

    And maybe Israel would never have come together as it did, overnight, and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the forever behind the times Arabs who cannot find their footing or sovereignty, cozying up to Iran and the Shia to wield some leverage against their overseers.

    Okay. Enough of that. I sort of mentioned finance in the above, what with New York builders and buyers and the Communist Marxist plan for all mankind. And women, too. All of us have been in the mind's eye of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, and Leon Trotsky and the rest of the world planners, thank you very much.

    Oh, those would-be empire builders of Germany and Russia thwarting the traditional powers of France and England, and soon to be the United States.

    Yes, us, the hegemon that we are.

    Where sports can seem to drive the economy. That is simpler, easier. Nobody dies, usually. There are injuries and injustices, but no one loses their shirt like the poor oppressed by awful landlords, or despotic chancellors and supreme leaders. Thugs and autocrats, filling the long history of humankind. Not enough women included, that seems to be a sad and veritable truth.

    Yes, sports are easier and nicer. Human power and the wielding of influence and law get sticky, messy, and maybe way too complicated for our brains to truly grasp and deal with.

    Books and tomes, archives and classes and now podcasts may treat all these ills and issues.

    In the next two posts I will discuss the tennis, football, and basketball seasons as they are winding up.

    And then: Negro league great baseball players, based on their on base percentages!

    How American is that?

    Blog on, my bloggadocios.

    Blogging on into the night...