The Interview

What I got out of Plato  (At least, what I ended up thinking about it afterward)

[regular text is the part of Socrates - in my words]

hi.

hello.

can I help you?

possibly.

would you like help?

if you can help me.

if you tell me what it is I can help you.

but if you don't know what it is, can you help me?

no.

then if you don't know, you can’t help me.

correct.

therefore if I don't tell you what it is, you can't help me.

precisely.

but if I want help I have to tell you what it is.

yes.

what if I don't want help?

everyone needs some help.

what if I don't?

then you are a fool - everyone needs help.

but I'm trying to tell you that I don't need help.

where is this conversation going?

I'm explaining to you a fundamental principle.

what point are you trying to make?

that your ideas are quite odd.  not everyone needs help.

but that is the point I'm trying to bring across - that everyone needs help.

and I am trying to refute that point.

I don't understand you.

neither I, you.

repeat your point.

are you Siri?

possibly.

you talk in circles.

are you comparing me to someone?

maybe.

you do not understand me and I do not understand you.

shall we go our separate ways?

that would be to our benefit.

then I say goodbye.

farewell stranger.

the cereal must come too.

put it in a bag.

oookaaaaay.

-bookhouse4