I was thinking more about this part > Everything therefore becomes a hobby or a game. People do things because they enjoy them for their own sake, or because t

I was thinking more about this part > Everything therefore becomes a hobby or a game. People do things because they enjoy them for their own sake, or because they are endeavours used as vehicles to socialise and enjoy others’ company, or because a shared social belief exists and is cultivated such that doing such and such a thing confers social status. And the mother in the story: > Vashti is content with her life, which, like most inhabitants of the world, she spends producing and endlessly discussing second-hand 'ideas'. She enjoys talking to friends but uses her work to defend herself against their invitations to be more social, remaining in her ‘room’ where all her basic needs are met. She's basically something like an academic reduced to something more like wikipedia researcher while something else has the first-hand ideas, communicating with her circle through facetime/vision pro persona.