Except this man's a woman and has a young child. They're leaving their man behind. If he was ever actually around. As well as their family and their whole shit hole country and culture. It's brave and daring when you put yourself in it. It means that they're at the end of their rope, and they have their whole life ahead of them. Anything is better than the thing that they have. They calculated and they decided. They ease the pain of all that through collective resolution. All three agreed to the same adventure.
The scene reminds me of ST:TNG scene where Riker and his away-team beam onto a Borg ship by way of getting acquainted. On the scaffolding walkways they walk right past Bork who don't even notice them. They walk past Borg sleeping while standing up in their pods who awaken to go do some task and walk right past them, unalarmed by the humans on their ship. Not even noticing them. It's not their job. The Borg haven't yet received directions to stop them. When the Borg finally realize they have invaders on their ship then the ship will send Borg to stop them. But not until they have specific orders.
And I thought while watching the first time, "These writers are brilliant." That really is how it would happen in a specialized society. Like ours.The worker ants don't do the job of soldier ants and the soldiers don't do the job of the workers. The writers understood that and showed it.
As viewers we were all worked up, "What are the Borg going to do? What are they going to do?" The answer: nothing. At first.
In many ways we are like Borg. In fact Riker was called #2 just as the Borg are numbered 3 of 4, 7 of 9 and so on. That whole thing was drawn from what we already are.
And here it is all over again. The construction workers are unconcerned with a few women carrying young children walking right past them. And why should they be? It's not their job. They are doing their job. And not doing their not-job.
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