So, what I like so much about science fiction is that two people can be living parallel existences and not be able to appreciate the other’s point of view- this can be taken to extremes, two cultures can sit, side-by-side, experiencing the same 'reality' and have completely different takes on the same incident. I mean, not like that’s relevant to today’s world. But SF uses the trope of the future, or time-travel, or alternate universes to explode thus, expose it.

Plus it can be fun. By exposing our own viewpoint and culture-bias, it allows one to explore many different realities and thus exposes assumptions we sometimes take for granted about the way the world is, the way it works, the way things are supposed to be and so on.

I like this piece because it does all that with such economy of language- that is a real, rare gift, as I have commented on your work before; hope everybody reading you is taking notes like I am. Listen up, ya’ll, take notes. Don’t trip. Don’t trip. Should be taking notes!