Of course, the word “beauty,” particularly when applied to Skin, is ambiguous and potentially confused in other ways, too. We will discuss at some stage whether our current paradigm of the Right Skin, the Skin that Matters Most, and why That Skin is beautiful while another is Not, is consistent with true health among a globally mobile and social species; and, whether this fascination with the de-colorizing of Skin can ever promote a more comprehensive and realistic vision of fairness, equity and good sense across the many cultures and varieties of humanity who together comprise the social ecology and network we think of as 21st Century civilisation.

But let’s take the long path towards our discussion of the Skin Immunity Landscape and the three levels or varieties of immunity—from barrier to innate to the adaptive—the last of which is the sort of immunity we’re most familiar with from school and our vaccination programs. Also, some discussion of the difference between a blunderbuss boosting of immunity and a more refined modulation or even sometimes a selective suppression of inflammatory immune responses will be important.

We expect to see the evolution of any really dramatic change over the course of two hours, from a crack in a sidewalk in scene 3 to the special effects of the City of Los Angeles falling into an abyss after, at most, an hour and 15 minutes into the flick.

The aroma of coffee added a bit of poetry—though not of the sweet and saccharine sort—to a string of mornings in the Great Land dominated by bureaucratism and the other modern American folkways with which my Korean family members and I were less than entirely familiar.

"There are secrets everywhere across our planet."