Collaboration and appeasement were terms that you learned in Political Science 101 course in college. They were mostly taught, these concepts, in the context of

Everything here is a hassle. I called a gym to get membership info. The guy told me I'd have to come to the gym first.

From Mark Mordue's “Dastgah: Diary of a head trip” (2001, Allen & Unwin,  Australia). Mordue is an Australian writer, journalist and editor. He has been