Lane and Jane Differ in Their Opinions on Many Subjects
Lane: Why do you say that I am not nice?
Jane: Because you don't listen to me.
Lane: But you are stupid and have nothing to say.
Jane: See what I mean? You are such a bastard.
Lane: Does calling me a bastard make you a nice person?
Jane: I am a nice person. You are the bastard. Don't you get it?
Lane: Well, anyway, why are you calling me a bastard?
Jane: Because you don't listen to me.
Lane: But you don't have anything worthwhile to say.
Jane: Well, I think that what I have to say is very worthwhile and you are simply a bastard.
Lane: How come I got to be a bastard, again?
Jane: I don't know. Because you want to?
Lane:
Jane:
Lane:
Jane: Oh, well. So sometimes you simply have to be polite, I suppose, but how does this
apply to your mythical Global Warming, or whatever you call it?
Lane: Didn't you read "The Cat in the Hat" to our children? You must admit that children need
to be fed myth and most adults never get past the fiction stage.
Lane: We need to wean ourselves off of fossile fuels and move toward more efficient and
sustainable means.
Jane: And what would be all that sustainable? Solar cells, I suppose? They are simply too
expensive to do anything but bankrupt us.
Lane: For me, it would be nuclear power, of course, but many people in the Green Movement
are opposed to nuclear power. We have pleanty of uranium to carry us well into the age
where we use fusion power. We also have plenty of natural gas to carry us into the age of
fission power.
Jane: And I suppose you call natural gas a fossile fuel?
Lane: I try to avoid it because, of course, it is not a fossile fuel at all. The problem is that if I
start arguing about the word "fossile" being applied to oil and gas, it will distract me from my
main goals.
Jane: So, you say that we should let people maintain the myth that somehow oil ended up
fifteen miles below the surface of the earth? Should we simply ignore the fact that nobody has
ever turned dead plants into oil?
Lane: Remember the book called "The Giver"? In that book, only one person in town had to
deal with reality. Everyone else believed in mythical reasons that made them feel good. That
is the point of it all. Humans want to be told things that make them feel good. The real work
has to be done by people like "The Giver" who must deal with reality.
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Lane: Why do you say that I am not nice?
Jane: Because you don't listen to me.
Lane: But you are stupid and have nothing to say.
Jane: See what I mean? You are such a bastard.
Lane: Does calling me a bastard make you a nice person?
Jane: I am a nice person. You are the bastard. Don't you get it?
Lane: Well, anyway, why are you calling me a bastard?
Jane: Because you don't listen to me.
Lane: But you don't have anything worthwhile to say.
Jane: Well, I think that what I have to say is very worthwhile and you are simply a bastard.
Lane: How come I got to be a bastard, again?
Jane: I don't know. Because you want to?
Lane:
Jane:
Lane:
Jane: Oh, well. So sometimes you simply have to be polite, I suppose, but how does this
apply to your mythical Global Warming, or whatever you call it?
Lane: Didn't you read "The Cat in the Hat" to our children? You must admit that children need
to be fed myth and most adults never get past the fiction stage.
Lane: We need to wean ourselves off of fossile fuels and move toward more efficient and
sustainable means.
Jane: And what would be all that sustainable? Solar cells, I suppose? They are simply too
expensive to do anything but bankrupt us.
Lane: For me, it would be nuclear power, of course, but many people in the Green Movement
are opposed to nuclear power. We have pleanty of uranium to carry us well into the age
where we use fusion power. We also have plenty of natural gas to carry us into the age of
fission power.
Jane: And I suppose you call natural gas a fossile fuel?
Lane: I try to avoid it because, of course, it is not a fossile fuel at all. The problem is that if I
start arguing about the word "fossile" being applied to oil and gas, it will distract me from my
main goals.
Jane: So, you say that we should let people maintain the myth that somehow oil ended up
fifteen miles below the surface of the earth? Should we simply ignore the fact that nobody has
ever turned dead plants into oil?
Lane: Remember the book called "The Giver"? In that book, only one person in town had to
deal with reality. Everyone else believed in mythical reasons that made them feel good. That
is the point of it all. Humans want to be told things that make them feel good. The real work
has to be done by people like "The Giver" who must deal with reality.
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