What else is there to do, though? In your world? What is there to do that's...not tv and watching the sex olympics? What ways are there to build things or explore new things or fix things? That all those people can do instead? It sounds likes you've got a whole "opiate of the masses" thing going on. Lots of distractions.

But do you still have underwater exploration? Space travel? People trying to understand particle physics just for the hell understanding it?

Art? Like real art. Like the kind that makes people stand there for a half hour just taking it in?

[His tone is searching, not condemnatory or judgmental. He's trying to find out more about her world, about the alternatives people have.]