Ves almost couldn't believe that Lady Romanda Devos was a cosmopolitan.
In his mind, the cosmopolitans were all raving fanatics who believed so much in working together with the aliens that they were willing murder an unlimited number of humans in order to achieve their supposedly utopic goals!
Her descriptions of her radical counterparts sounded exactly like how Ves imagined the cosmopolitans to be. Their resistance against the human order had ceased to be a purely intellectual and ideological pursuit.
Instead, the exiled and hated cosmopolitans had huddled together into cells that had practically degenerated into tribes.
Unlike a more civilized organization, a tribe was mostly held together by superstition and irrationality.
The problem became so bad that the cosmopolitans even went as far as forgetting their original purpose!
