And I don't want basics, the minutiae of government; I want the culture of the place from a citizen, one not sent to Aurora purely to discredit me. To Spacers, all Earthers are alike, all anti-intellectual and technophobic to an irrational extent.
[Conflict moves across her face] You have expressed a desire that I move beyond that generalized conception. And you are certainly not from the same collectivist society that birthed O'Brian-- who, I must say, is everything that we were ever warned Earthers could be.
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And I don't want basics, the minutiae of government; I want the culture of the place from a citizen, one not sent to Aurora purely to discredit me. To Spacers, all Earthers are alike, all anti-intellectual and technophobic to an irrational extent.
[Conflict moves across her face] You have expressed a desire that I move beyond that generalized conception. And you are certainly not from the same collectivist society that birthed O'Brian-- who, I must say, is everything that we were ever warned Earthers could be.