Dan Interview

me: What's a good question to ask you in an interview?

Dan: I'm not talking to you any more.

me: Come on man, it'll be fine, you can get final edit.

me: It's fine if our conversation doesn't make any sense.

Dan: I don't think you understand how an interview works!

me: I don't think you understand how this interview works!

Dan: You have to ask me questions, you can't just ask me "Do you have anything to say?"

me: Okay. Who's your favorite philosopher?

Dan: Hmm. That's a good question.

me: I mean -

Dan: I would say... Vonnegut. Well, Vonnegut has most often been my "favorite" philosopher. I don't agree with a lot of what he said later on.

me: Like what?

Dan: The pessimistic, world-is-going-to-hell attitude. I think that's pretty key, accepting that the world is better than ever by just about any measure. As long as you don't value rain forest over humans.

me: So does Vonnegut really count as a philosopher?

Dan: Yeah definitely!

A brief untranscribable argument ensues.

me: Well, would Vonnegut call himself a philosopher?

Dan: Not literally.

;-)