advocacy for beginners

During a phone coversation, Byrno the artist asks a question. 

"James did you get the vaccine?"

"Byrno after all these years do you not know me?"

"I do know you. You did get it."

"I did not get it. And you clearly don't know me. It is not in this life possible that I would get it under any circumstances. I can't believe you got it Byrno. What's happened to you? You used to be a thinking man, a man of principle, tuned in to all this stuff, to all the issues."

"Oh come on. It's time for this to be over. Everybody's got to take the vaccine."

"Do you know what it's made of?"

"James I don't know and I don't want to know."

"Is this John Byrne speaking?"

"It is."

"Can this really be John Byrne talking? Is this the Byrno who knew more about dystopian sci fi movies of the seventies with bleak futuristic visions than the guys who made them? Is this the Byrno who shouted 'yeah man' when Bruce Dern blew up his own spaceship to save a rainforest in Silent Running? Is this the Byrno who mused about Logan's Run: 'That could happen. It's where we're headed with youth culture.' Is this the same Byrno who muttered along with Lee Van Cleef in Escape From New York: 'It's the future of the human race Plisskan. Something you don't give a shit about.' Is this the same John Byrne who was one of the only people in the known universe who knew exactly what I was raving on about when I said that John Carpenter's low budget Dark Star was a satire on 2001 A Space Odyssey but you didn't have to have seen 2001 because Dark Star worked on its own and that a ten minute segment of Dark Star had been ripped off by one of its cast members Dan O'Bannon as the entire plotline of the billion dollar smash hit Alien franchise and that Carpenter never made a billion dollar hit, and that he and O'Bannon fell out over the matter, and that O'Bannon successfully claimed in court that he had contributed elements of the Dark Star script while acting in the film and was therefore a scriptwriter as well as actor, and was perfectly entitled to rip off his own elements from his own scripts? Is this same Byrno who hawked his own bloodsoaked dystopian sci fi film script about heroic soldiers attacking an impregnable base and finally capturing it after a whole movie's worth of mayhem only to discover they've been fighting an automated computerised defence system for years and that every human being in the base was long since dead? Can this really be the same John  Byrne who now says he's going to be a good little boy and eat any essentially untested vaccine the government offers up on foot of an orchestrated flu virus panic and doesn't want to know what's in it when one of the members of the resistance offers to tell him?"

"Yes, it's the same John Byrne. I don't want to know what's in the vaccine. I don't care what's in it. Everyone should just get on with it and take it."

"You're not going to let me tell you what's in it."

"No. I've no interest."

"Okay."

"Right so."

"It's made out of unborn babies murdered by abortion."

"Ah James for ****'s sake."

"Soylent Green is people. It's the future of the human race Byrno. Something you don't give a shite about."