The importance of "context" to all human actions and decisions is too obvious to need mention. Or is it? How and why has this most fundamental law of human intelligence been so thoroughly obscured and misconstrued in modern American politics? Attempts to answer this question could, and I think do, fill libraries. Is it because of our failing education system? Our technology driven instant gratification culture and consumer marketplace? The domination of an increasingly superficial and profit driven mass media? The decline of bowling leagues famously highlighted by Robert Putnam's popular book? The breakdown of the nuclear family? Declines in church membership? Increases in church membership? Rock and Roll, Rap, sex and violence on TV? Runaway social individualism preached by liberal college professors? Runaway economic individualism preached conservative Social Darwinists in business schools and the "real world?"Click HEREto read the rest of this essay.