A fantastic allegory about human behaviors, beliefs, and tendencies. Like the Planets, all the characters continue to persist in fixed behaviors and beliefs, when the reality has shifted beyond the representational model of the belief system and adaptability of the behaviors. The Planets' apparent autistic existence mirrors the humanity's blind stubbornness in persisting within the bubble of their cultural and social belief matrix.

With the entire economy collapsed, the drones in the story continue to seek "jobs" from organizations that continue to operate in the very system that caused the collapse. The infinite expansion model of retail and sales, the constant mortgaging of man's future via insurance and interest-based lending, continued reliance on government despite the obvious inability of legal enforcement are elegantly represented in the Planets drifting through an abandoned bookstore, following pre-determined patterns.

It is also apt that the bookstore - a places that sells information and concepts - is the venue, in which the Planets continue their patters, as to indicate that the very information we consume locks humanity into predictable and immutable patterns.