I understand that a some of you, maybe most, are quite uncomfortable with what I have been presenting in the last two lectures. Reactions are varied as you can tell from questions in class and views posted on the web. My aim was not to make you comfortable with AIDS and the interface it creates between individuals and groups that make up our society. The other society brought under the microscope is in sub-Saharan Africa where at long last we seem to be getting a slightly better understanding of the problem. This is a delusion.
Facts are like words in a dictionary.
Without grammar there is not context to begin ordering them into short sequences of sentences, paragraphs, chapters etc. But in the end if there is no story to tell, if it goes nowhere, the grammatical organization of words is perfectly useless. It's like making a list of all the objects that fall and describing their behavior. The list is pretty useless until the concept of gravity is introduced, and then the list is really useless. I am concerned about what to do with facts besides use them as brain stuffing in preparation for turkey day.