"Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)"

Jack and Jill are walking on the busy streets of NY (set in the near-distant future) when they take a turn into an alley, stopping right before 30 foot fence.

Jack: We should turn around and get back on the street. It's fenced off over there.

Jill: These glasses are supposed to be 100% fool-proof.

Jack: There's no way that they let us down. Maybe someone temporarily put this fence up and it will come down later this evening?

Shadowman: Ha. You really think this fence was just put up today?

Jill: Who's there?

Shadowman: You won't be able to see me with those glasses.

Jack: We can't take them off. 

Shadowman: Obviously that's for you to deal with.

Jack: We don't want to cause any trouble. Is there anyway through this fence? I'll pay you for your advice and to leave us unharmed.

Shadowman: (cackling, coughing laugh) Your "paper." That "iron" you feel so dearly about "won't buy" you into "Eden."

Jill: That's exactly what it will do. "Working for paper and for iron" is the sole of all of our purposes. The more you have the better part of heaven. Everyone knows that.

Jack: The motto is and forever will be, "work for the right to keep my tie on." Anything else is blasphemous.

Jill: Who are you to say differently? You won't even come out of the shadows. 

Shadowman: You are the ones that can't see. Without those glasses this entire world would look differently. It would be the truth. (disgusted) You say you are "working for paper and for iron" because that is the only thing that keeps you in line. They give you just enough that you feel adequate, but not enough to where you can no longer work. 

Jill: That's not true.

Shadowman: You "work for the unicorn and lion." Things that aren't real.

Jack: They actually just cloned the first lion since they went extinct in 2053.

Jill: Not the time. Society is the best it has ever been. There's no more starvation, no more wars, everybody in the entire world is finally free.

Shadowman: You may not want to see it. No you cannot see it, but you don't know what life is like for those who aren't on the beaten path. You two should never have come down this alley.

Jack: But the glasses.

Shadowman: Take off the glasses. 

Jill's demeanor shifts.

Jill: No. I have done so once before and I will never again. For the 30 minutes I dared look at what really existed, I immediately started to "pray the kids aren't starving" or really that anyone wasn't hungry. I saw in those moments that there was "no chicken for the Sunday carving" that countries were still at war and constantly fighting. Releasing poison in desperate places. I'll take my utopia over the truth.

Jack: Jill?

Shadowman: So you won't stay to fight?

Jill: "I'll stay for one more farthing." Hell I'll stay for them all. There is no fight that I belong to. Jack, let's go. Now.

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