At the beginning of the 1960's, I was concerned, for my students, by the tempting exhortation of Timothy Leary (and other sharp extremists) to "Drop Out! And Turn On!" But I remembered the flat extremeness of the 50's for "Giving in". Then there began to develop, in the "WeatherMen" and other groups, the terrible noise of terrorism. So, connecting all this to my own natural wamping, I exhorted my students with, "DON'T DROP OUT! DON'T GIVE IN! DON'T BOOM! SIDE-STEP!" For I intuited that creative thinkers and actors, throughout history, used diversionary tactics to avoid confrontation and to "direct traffic" into a more "peaceable and useful" direction.

Later, the Canadian mathematician, Z. A. Melzak, wrote a book, Bypassing, A Simple Approach to Complexity, about the principle of conjugacy in group theory -- which Melzak now applied in various daily, technical and scholastic ways, So, I now revised my slogan, thus: "Don't Drop Out! Don't Give In! Don't Go Boom! BYPASS!!!"

The bypass strategy bypasses a difficult or "impossible" problem or situation by accomplishing the same intent through solution of another problem. Melzak shows how BYPASSING can be used in math, science, technology, and in daily life problems. at present, I wish to promote this strategy as a way of bypassing confrontation for any one who is a lover not a fighter.

A GENERAL BYPASS OF SASSING IS -- TO SASS BACK! (I hope RESPONSIBLY!)

         TAKING SASS
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      pass the sass, Buddy