The tool mark makes life worth living, whether the Lord producing them or the meekest doing the work. The tool mark is the start and finish of humanity; without it, there is no humanity, only drones of various capacities within a larger mechanism.

Without tool marks, we become ants under the thumb of the most powerful, and freedom will be a faint memory of long days past until a spark ignites a fire that will consume those too foolish to move. Then peace will reign once more, for a time, until the same mistakes are made again.

This cycle will continue until knowledge and the pursuit of it become the pinnacle of human greatness, rather than the acquisition of worthless currency.

Look around you. Are we ants? Why do so many strive so grandly to become ants? We are the smartest species to have ever graced this planet, yet we try so hard to usurp that which makes us great with things that make us utterly foolish. It’s time for the next evolution of humanity. We are still natives bribed with trinkets when we could be farming on Mars and extending ourselves throughout the cosmos.

One can rule the entire world and still have such a tiny kingdom. This is humanity’s greatest failure: to see so little.