"Why do they do that?"

"Uh, we weight the votes so important people count more, and the justification is that lots of people believe silly things and would vote badly."

"...do they, with their reduced voting?"

"Likelier to favor war, that's pretty bad, likelier to favor harsher criminal penalties which I'm mostly against but not confident that my sensibilities should override social mores..."

"Huh."

"But it's harder to estimate the things they'd get right, or that politicians would get right if they had no choice but to cater to them. You've got lighter punishments than us and an equal vote, maybe that's just cultural."

"Maybe."

"Wish I could bottle it and take it home with me."

"Is that not a technology you have?"

"Bottling public sentiment to release in the air somewhere else? Now that I think about it it sounds rather dubious."

"Little bit."

"Maybe you could do it with movies. Once Wrebb invents movies."

"What is a movie?"

"Television, only shorter and with a specific plot and occasionally watched in theatres instead of at home."

"...why the distinction?"

"Historical. We invented movies first."

"Aha."

"Big screen is an easier problem. I think. We didn't really cover nearly as much history of technology as we should have given that apparently sometimes people get teleported to other planets."

"Are your curriculum designers likely to correct this oversight?"

"If they knew where I was! Luckily I don't think they have any idea."

"What would happen if they did?"

"Depends very much on what specifically they knew but they'd try very hard to replicate it."

"And that would be awful?"

"Well, I'd personally come out very well but if we had robots we would murder all the reds and someone would probably conquer the locals as soon as we figured out how to season here, maybe even without that."

"Charming."