Business As Usual

There is an ancient tale in which a king’s four sons are asked what careers they intend to follow. They said to one another: “Let us go out into the world and search for a special science.” They agreed on a place where they would meet again, and the four brothers started off, each in a different direction. Time went by and the brothers met again at the appointed meeting place, and they asked one another what they had learned. “I have mastered a science,” said the first, “which makes it possible for me, if I have nothing but a piece of bone of some creature, to create the flesh that goes with it.” “I,” said the second, “know how…