Yes yes yes, I know, a more artful conclusion to the whole confab would have been for me to direct them to the original by Rudyard Kipling, and draw from this a parallel to the governmental architecture bequeathed to us by our Constitution’s authors and subsequently shat upon, but as a wise speaker once said: the mind can only absorb what the butt can endure, and this whole raising-children-to-be-strangers-in-a-strange-land thing is a slow and methodical process, and besides there was popcorn to be made, and as another wise and equally anonymous quipper once quipped: philosophies only endure where bellies are full.