A society built on survival and complacency then? Alexander considered the implications of that, and he had helped to start the beginnings of it in his own world. People unable and unwilling to stand up, instead simply trying to make it through one day in order to reach the next where the exact same routine awaited them. It was the only race many ran, never roused to rebel and being too shy to see one who was rebelling as anything more than a disruption to scheduling and the mundane life built with walls of letting other people have control.

"It sounds like people have accepted their unhappiness as just a way of life," he remarked, though he was guessing. There wasn't a lot of information to go on, but probing at the words that had been spoken meant that he could gradually build a better understanding. Not that it mattered, but he like to think he could build on the mistakes of others to create something beneficial for those that remained behind.

"Is your gruff attitude of not caring a front to prevent yourself from losing whatever it is you have left or just your own way of rebelling against the way your life turned out?"