"Gotta say," Mike sighs, staring the screen with eyes that weren't really watching the people move to and fro in their clipped limbo. "Of all the things to survive the test of time, I was kind of hoping these particular parts of human nature didn't. Whether it's cruelty or just spectacular incompetence---"

He breaks off, tone making his opinion clear.

He'd just hoped for better. That they might have learned, eventually.