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Teacher: Confused.
Gamma: Why? I understand that if you had never watched movies, you wouldn’t know whether you needed them or not. You probably wouldn’t realize this even after watching a few movies. However, if you don’t eat for a while, your body starts to bother you, and it does so until you feed it.
Delta: By the way, as you get more hungry, you become less selective.
Alpha: So?
Delta: Let’s see.
Alpha: What? You don’t know why you said that?
Delta: . . . True.
Kappa: What difference does it make? It makes sense. If you like a certain type of music, say classical, you will not listen to something entirely different, say rap, even if you have not had access to any music for a long time. We are differently selective with meals than with music, right?
Beta This is kind of obvious. Music or books or paintings—they are all like people. The more you communicate with them, the more selective you become. You value some and are disgusted by others . . .
Alpha: Isn’t it the same about meals?
Beta: Do you value one more and more or hate another more and more?
Kappa: I would say the opposite. You may like eating something for a while and suddenly get sick of it.
Alpha: Don’t you change your preferences in the arts?
Kappa: Hmm.
Delta: Interesting. . . . Listen, food companies take new products to the market pretty often, while entertainment companies use the same stereotypes as long as possible.
Gamma: Do you mean movies? But they do not show you one movie for a long time, right?
Delta: One movie? No. But you recognize the same stereotypes in different movies.
Kappa: And this is boring. Boring entertainment, ha ha ha.
Alpha: Someone said a while ago that you can read the same book over and over again. Isn’t that boring?