It's also important to note that the colonials aren't living an ideal existence. It beats death, but very few of the older generation think that having kids having to decide their MOS at 15, a culture where historian and artist are part time jobs because there has to be such a ruthless focus on military preparedness, is an ideal situation. The younger ones? Don't really think about it, because they've grown up in that, and that also concerns their elders. Adama, Zarek, Tomas all have nightmares about the day when they've been freed from the cylons, don't have to worry about them anymore...and nothing changes because nobody alive remembers any other way of doing things.

It should be noted that Esther and Mike are probably far closer in attitudes and outlook to Tomas' dead grandchildren then most of the children on the fleet are.

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