When I was a kid, there was an Italian crime series called Octopus about the Sicilian Mafia. The main character was a police inspector named Corrado Cattani, who of course was trying to catch the mobsters. The comparison of the mafia to an octopus is really amazing and realistic. Each of its tentacles has its own nervous equipment, a kind of “brain” that controls it. This allows the tentacles to move independently. And if you cut off a tentacle, it doesn’t hurt the octopus and over time it grows a new one. And so it is with the mafia. In …