The General of Ice Cream had a dilemma. Too many people loved eating ice cream!
“Good god, man!” the general exclaimed. “Ice cream is a finite resource and every day we’re eating it faster!”
“So what?” the people all said. “What do you know? You’re just a general!”
“Fair enough,” the general said, “My years of logistical management in service of optimizing my people killing more people (over ice cream, always over ice cream, that damnably sweet stuff) don’t really qualify me to have educated opinions on much of anything except, well, exactly that.”
“Don’t worry about it!” said all of the actors. “That’s never stopped us before! Having an opinion (or acting like you have one) is fun!”
“Thanks, actors! I owe you one,” the general said.
“Don’t mention it,” said the actors, as they only pretended to eat the ice cream. “It’s hard to say your lines with a mouthful of ice cream,” they whispered. “If you watch us closely, you’ll see that we eat really oddly in movies and television.”
The general tried to get other people to listen to him. Everyone pretended like what he had to say was Really Quite Important, but eventually the general realized it was only an act.
“Oh what’s the use,” the general said, and ate some ice cream–one scoop rocky road, one scoop strawberry.
“Delicious!” the general said.