And the wealthy and powerful get their own little club to peer down on the rest of the world from.

[Man, he should have seen something like this coming after talking both to Erik and also to Sam, but still. It's not a perfect parallel to the situation in his world, but he sees the echoes across all that time and distance.]

And they're the ones who celebrate this Christmas holiday, and somehow, the ones where most of the people here come from. Wonder why?