[Avoiding_Sulla]

Gain the agreement before those offering it know what they've done or whom they have backed. Use that opening to teach more of the remaining content.

Maybe I'm just over the hill, but I have no idea what this means.

Look, I pray your technique succeeds. It is the civilized way. Thus, there's the rub. What I warned Don of at the bottom of 17 certainly pertains to you.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Strike civilized. [cringes]

Make that “the rational, the right, way.”