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Gamma: Yes.
Alpha: So?
Gamma: Is he a good guy or a bad guy?
Alpha: How should I know?
Beta: But you have to have some attitude, some understanding, some feelings about him, don’t you?
Kappa: I do. I don’t want him for a second term.
Gamma: Good! Tell us what made you think that?
Alpha: I see where you are heading. It is all the newspapers, TV, radio, Internet. . . . So?
Kappa: Ah! It is all artificial! The president is as real to me as Tom Sawyer! And all my likes and dislikes relate to stories I read, movies I watched, music I listened to, and so on!
Teacher: Well, something was done by real people like me or your loving parents or your smart classmates or even your president . . .
Kappa: But now I don’t even know who did what and who did more.
Beta: All our lives . . . this happens. . . . We don’t know what we are made of. Is it our parents who read us tales, or is this the tales that were read to us by our parents?
Delta: Is it that the president is cooked up by a journalist, or is it the journalist writing about his president?
Gamma: Is it music written by a composer, or the composer who makes the music?
Alpha: OK, I can play this game too. Tom Sawyer or Mark Twain, right?
Beta: Or yourself, when you read it.
Teacher: Or the classmates you are arguing with.
Beta: Or ideas we are arguing about?
Gamma: Told you! Wow!
Kappa: You sure did! Wow!
Alpha: Everyone—one, two three: Wow!
Delta: So you join in, don’t you Alpha?
Alpha: Join what?