"Yeah," Don chuckles. "I keep getting mistaken for a plant."

It doesn't surprise him. The kind of civilization Panem was, by nature, inhibited deep, independent thought. It was just like many of the science fiction dystopic fictions he had voraciously read as a kid back home.

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

"Um, but..." Quickly Don came back to the dystopia he lived in. "Thank you. Your costume looks nice also."