My nonsense

In retrospect, it's hilarious that Stratt made everybody on the vat speak English in deference to Grace being monolingual

Actually, on the note of Eridians being natural multitaskers (capable of both fully engaged conversations and complex tasks simultaneously), while humans are... Not Like That, I think the human habit of going on "autopilot" would also be totally foreign to them.

Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism. In fact, there was not a single liberation movement in the whole world that was fighting for capitalism. The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

"problematic fiction" is actually a somewhat useful example of Nietzsche's concept of "morality of mores" like we initially consider certain acts morally wrong because they cause societal harm, and while fiction is harmless it also demonstrates a willingness not to obey the societal mores of considering the morally wrong act to be not just harmful but also "evil."