Thank Argo, Ishi thought to herself when Akiko said their movement weren't the same...yet.  She said nothing as Akiko listed off the probable causes for her indenture here as...whatever Akiko had become.  "No," she replied if this was better, "I have no way of comparing that.  So I can't answer your question."  She recoiled slightly away from Akiko's tail as she came by to pick up Ishi's discarded clothing - though she herself hadn't done it, that had been<em>her</em>.<br/><br/>"That's not true."  She replied back flatly.  "I just think that a very, very overinfluencing minority of you are.  The rest of you are like the Barsoomians, toiling away day after day for a tin roof and gruel.  They're the ones who provide the foundation for transhumanity.  But the people who run things are a bunch of overentitled bastards who decided that they run things simply because they happened to be born in the right place.  And people thought that we banished the divine right of kings with democracy.  Hah!  That just made a way for a new 'divine right.'"  One of Ishi's biggest hangups about the inner system was..well, she would get to that soon enough.<br/><br/>And she did feel better, a bit...but there was no way that she was going to tell Akiko that, or that part of her had some...interest in whateer it was that she did.  "Maintain stability.  You mean the status quo.  And by assertive and radical you mean people like me, like the Argonauts.  Why is it that you're so afraid of sharing, anyways?  You talk about stagnation?  If we share all the discoveries we make with more people, then isn't the chance that something good will grow out of that?  That the changes that result will help transhumanity?"  But that argument would be for another time.<br/><br/>"I don't do those things," Ishi replied when Akiko talked about the arts.  "The closest I get to the arts and the furthest away I get from science is when I write, and I don't really think writing is what you're looking for.  It's more of a hobby, and a way of sharing information, for me."