Every world is perfectly normal to the people who live there.

[ There were unimaginable horrors in Erik's childhood that he just accepted as a matter of course as it was all he knew. Not all, of course. Even knowing nothing else there were things he knew was wrong. But the transition to living free in society was abrupt. ]

It's enough to make one wonder what is expected of us, here. Who among us knows how to make a truly just and prosperous society. Or whatever it is we're supposed to do.