Clavell really Knows how to Tell a Story. (Shogun mesmerized damn near a plurality of Muricans way-back, first over several days ... then the weekly re-runs for some years thereafter.)

+6.66 for 'Density' ... but more like Concentration ... of the highest-scale memes that all societies inculcate
Give us the child until age 5 and s/he's Ours: any Catholic priest.
-- except never so starkly, ""logically"" and via honed psycho-persuasion techniques == in 23 MINUTES.

Mark Twain's War Prayer still wins the Two-by-Four Upside-the-Head Award though, IMO.
This teaching-koan wins via tersest 'MAN-Unix' implosion-grade compression, I wot. But Twain wins via every artfully literate insight that craftsmanship connotes.

(Bet the Scientologists have already parsed this one into a $pecially-priced Über-Clear category, for those majoring in Recruitment.)
Boolean is Sooo handy for clearly demonstrating some black/white issue / with single solution ready-made;
not-so-good re several million gray-scale choices. Like in actual life. I Love Cosmic Humour.



Thanks for a sententious sonnet; such a breath of fresh Air amidst the formula meeja cant-in-C# Minor.


Ed: oTpy