George Washington Out of Context, 2025 Geoffrey Sutton and Artspace.ai How Do You Interpret the News? How Do We Put Today's News in Context? When asked what something means, we usually respond based on our context, which involves an interaction between ourselves, other people, and our location. By location I mean our geographic place and our historical timeframe. For example, the words ‘Civil War’ evoke different associations if heard in England or the USA, or through media from different nations. These two events occurred some 200 years apart. There is a connection. President George Washington’s great-grandfather John Washington was a royalist who supported King Charles I against Parliament. Thus, context is not just about spatial location but also time. President Washington and the Continental Congress likely considered the issues of the Civil War (the English one). When significant changes occur in a nation, as reported in the news today, we try to put them into context. Unfortu...
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