[Jack has to take a moment to take all this in. Things are no different in his time, of course---the heyday of colonial enterprise. Possibly he has less of a systematic understanding of it--certainly his time predates Marx and other thinkers--but Jack is nobody's fool. He's survived this long by learning to live on the outskirts of systems and institutions that require from him things he is not willing to give, and that might otherwise despise him for his own colonial heritage.
XD beautiful
He sips his whiskey.]
You're rather an idealist, aren't you, Burgess.