How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time, is the old answer.
But what if it’s an elephant today and a buffalo tomorrow? What if it looks like an elephant to one person and a dog to another? What if the elephant doesn’t want to be eaten? What if one person wants to eat the elephant and another doesn’t?
Then, you have to all agree it’s an elephant, and that everyone wants to eat it, and who’s going to eat which bit, and when to eat it, and how long it’s going to take to chew eat bite.
Suddenly, eating an elephant doesn’t seem so simple.