[crystal ball time]....

-OPIE: bereft of any tangible self-identity or organic opinions

WILL AMBIGUOUSLY (thats key) announce it in a cautiously sarcastic tone....while quickly scanning reactions of those around him & a NY Post headline: to tell him what his take on it should be

-as JIM: (knowing Z.E.R.O of GnR, despite being biggest band ON EARTH while he was in his late-teens/20s)

.....will do his romanticized.... "ALOOF JIM, QUIRKY ALLEN-ESQUE, DETACHED COMIC GENIUS" jag. instead of the REAL answer, i.e....."don't know em'....i'm just a creepy, culturally-stunted WEIRDO"