No kidding. [It's wry and a little tired, the tone of someone who had to educate herself because nobody else thought of it.] Too bad the lessons of these planets can't carry much further than here.

Mm, it's impossible to be prepared if you don't know the rules. Sciences, I think, dictate the 'rules' of a particular place, maybe moreso than politics. And the arts... well, they tell you something about the heart and soul of it.