They've worked so hard for years, maybe forgotten the Earth or their children as future. I think you've said it as well as I would, certainly. As you transcribe the interview, just say that I nod my head wisely here. Scenario writing is itself necessarily, as a form of cognitive operation, a form of thinning. For that reason, whenever I read scenarios, especially reactive scenarios, I find myself thinking about how similar a scenario must be to the mindset and working plans of someone who is creating a theme park.
Theme parks are forms of thinned reality.
A theme park is what, extending my model of fantasy, happens when the process of thinning gets stuck. Technically, stuck stories are known as horror stories. You sense that something is wrong and somebody out there is trying to seduce you into believing it's right. Some idiot werewolf devouring infants and corpses or some vampire, through sex, is trying to persuade you that its life is better than yours. The thinning, if it gets stuck and doesn't pass on to something else, is ultimately about the violation or the rupturing of life.