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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?