Every person and pursuit we are told of is boring in comparison to what they could be and could become. Sports and gossip? For eternity? That’s utopia?
Sure humans love sports and gossip and I’d love to partake in some. But there are better sports and better gossip and better everything than the culture indulges in. The culture is boring, as though their ambitions were locked in when the Minds were created millenia ago.
Barely twenty-two, famed scholastic overachiever since the age of three, voted Most Luscious Student by her last five University years and breaker of more hearts on Phage Rock than anybody since her legendary great-great-great-grandmother, had been summarily dragged away from her graduation ball by the drone Churt Lyne.
this person is winning, and in style. their life is not boring.
i get your point (and agree!) that they ‘should’ be dissatisfied with the infinite-highschool-beauty-contest planet. it is not the game i would choose to play. but: what do you do with them when it is the one that they choose? some people want simple things.
Every person and pursuit we are told of is boring in comparison to what they could be and could become. Sports and gossip? For eternity? That’s utopia?
Sure humans love sports and gossip and I’d love to partake in some. But there are better sports and better gossip and better everything than the culture indulges in. The culture is boring, as though their ambitions were locked in when the Minds were created millenia ago.
this person is winning, and in style. their life is not boring.
i get your point (and agree!) that they ‘should’ be dissatisfied with the infinite-highschool-beauty-contest planet. it is not the game i would choose to play. but: what do you do with them when it is the one that they choose? some people want simple things.