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– What is the situation with the passengers? – Burton asked his wife. You are a psychologist. There are 100,000 of them on our ship alone. What is the psychological situation after three years of flight?

– We do a survey on the net every month, – Dora said. They need to answer many questions. Well, for example, how do you tolerate parting with your home planet? Have you fully understood the situation on Earth? It was very difficult to understand and accept it. Many people were thinking before we left, maybe it would. Only scientists, physicists, astronomers did not give such hope. Now I am more concerned about the relationship between people.

– During the three years of the flight, they united or locked themselves in small groups? What unites people and what divides? Will not despondency, hopelessness, and doom overtake everyone? If there is no consolidation of people on the ship, the whole flight will be meaningless. They should understand that they would not reach the target, but their distant descendants. Perhaps the next generation will not be so painful to bear the hardships of flight, but people who saw the blue sky, bathed in the warm sea, will endure it very hard.

– What about faith? – Burton asked.

– We have representatives of different faiths on our ship. We still look at ancient Greek mythology as a legend. Do they preserve traditions, rites, and festive customs?

– Yes, – after thinking about it, Dora said.

– The question is very interesting. Before the flight, no one could accurately predict people’s behavior. Some believed that detachment from the earth, from big cities, from shrines would force people to reduce their commitment to faith. Others, on the contrary, believed that detachment from the earth to force people to keep the faith that will help them survive would further unite.

I am more inclined to the first option. 5—10 generations will pass and detachment from the Earth will do its job. Everything will remain in the form of legends. We still look at ancient Greek mythology as a legend.

– Do you, as a psychologist, already see changes in people’s communication? – Burton asked.

– When we left the Earth, people of different nationalities gathered on our ship, people spoke different languages, although they knew the universally recognized, on which everyone communicates.

– Yes, of course, there are changes, – the wife replied.

– Although not much time has passed, people have become less likely to communicate with each other in their native language. That is understandable. During the flight, people continue to work, perform their official functions. Now it is mostly English. It has been like this on Earth lately. This is computer language and technical texts. Even at the very beginning of the flight, it was decided to develop some universal language, which would be clear to all and easier to study.

– So, what is the basis? – Burton asked.

– There have been many discussions on this issue. On the one hand, it is convenient to use a language in which sounds and letters correspond, as in Russian language. If, for example, a person speaks the word cosmos, then each spoken sound corresponds to its own sign, letter. With such a system, you can record a word when you hear sounds. There is no need to think about the fact that there are any exceptions or accepted conventions. Take English. I pronounce the sound of “yu” but I write “you.” You just have to remember it, and why? If, for example, you heard an unfamiliar English word, you cannot write it down. There are also words that are pronounced the same, but are written differently, and the meaning is understood only out of context. All these difficulties must go away.

– What about the beauty of language, poetry? – Burton asked.

– There will be nothing left of poetry if you use dry, not expressive words.

– I think it is all going to stay. People will cherish all the good and valuable. Culture will remain a culture. This is the basis of everything. If there are no values, then what to protect. The history of life on Earth will remain in the memories of subsequent generations. All the best and bright will be passed down from generation to generation. Somewhere in a new place, everything will be restored or at least as possible. Future generations will need to know their homeland, their homeland of origin, development, formation.