Advice examines the process of civilization: Coming together and making a deal or relationship that is in the mutual interest of the parties. It also examines the problem of civilization: the self-interested hell-raising vandal with the big mouth who wants to be in on the deal without participating. So it reads as a heads-up that, in getting your relationship or transaction finished, you will have to deal with a ruffian of some sort. ("Don't agree to Plan A.") You will: The deal closes ...