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"As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk,

The law runneth forward and back,

For the strength of the pack is the wolf,

And the strength of the wolf is the pack."

Sorry, I had to do it. To modify Billy Joel, I'm in a neo-colonialist, patriarchal, paleo-conservative state of mind. In other words, I'm aware of the bicameral reality of human interactions, and the feedback loops that blur the distinction between individual agents and group dynamics until wolves and their packs are comprehensible by the same standards:

Will I be bitten, how can I avoid the bite, and how can I teach others to avoid bites in general?

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It's never too late in the day for Kipling.

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