Offense, Defense, and the Game

What Conservatives might welcome as a sound policy

Envision reality, as some philosophers do, as a complexity of complexes, that is many interrelated wholes (complexes) each themselves a part of larger wholes.  (Not so confusing if taken with a deep breath.  Things are interrelated with each other, but the “things” themselves are composed of interrelated parts, each of which themselves are interrelated parts of further wholes, in fact of many different wholes.  That’s right, complexes all the way down, all the way up and all the way out.)   

The key to making sense of this is to understand that all complexes (within and without) are ordered, that is, in constant flux, adjusting and readjusting to each other. 

Think clearly about this and you come out of the rabbit hole with both a better understanding of baseball as well as skeptical of too much so-called liberalism. Really!

For whether this helps me understand the politics of George Will, or not, it does help me focus on this baseball season, an attempt he would applaud, as I try to refute the commentators that fail to recognize why my Chicago Cubs are on the rise. 

For society is a game that baseball mimics and explains.  Offense matches defense and both are in constant readjustment to each other.  If you feel that defense has mastered offense, wait.  Offenses will adjust and right the balance.  It is the story of the game.  Small ball, in a new and interesting form, will counter the adjustments that defense has made to uppercut homerun swings and positioning analytics.  Don’t change the rules.  Wait and let the dynamics (the ordered interactions of complexes) effect a new balance between offense and defense.

And society?  In part the same.  Be cautious of rule changes.  Progressive forces will push for different regulatory environments to be “game changers.” 

But the same logic of adjustment cautions against a government of over active rule changers, as conservatives should be arguing.  This doesn’t mean forget about the rules.  Only if the underlying structure is properly adjusted (by rule changes) to the new technologies of the game, will the natural processes of mutual adjustment be realized.  While rules (laws, regulations) don’t fix things, as in create ideal results, structure do create the playing fields upon which mutual adjustment is possible and the game can continue, with, I am tempted to say, “liberty and justice for all.”  And Chicago Cub victories.