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I was geeking when I wrote this lmao I used Wolf for the cover image

A cell is a machine. A human is a machine. Humanity is a machine. Humanity is a human. Humanity is a cell. A machine does not decide anything for itself, it merely reacts. You are a machine, and every decision you make is not a decision but an order given by either 1. Another insignificant machine, which in and of itself is due to another order which they had received, so on and so forth, or 2. The larger Machine known as humanity, made of the billions of cogs that are the cells, that are the people. Most often it is a combination of several people directly influencing each decision, with the less detectable influence of the greater machine that leads to what you call a choice. It is a choice. But it is not your choice to make, but the greater machine's.

Humanity itself is as sentient as a cell. The shared thoughts that you have with your community, that being the underlying assumptions and culture make up humanity's psyche, as a web. You are a cell. You are a singular cog in the greater machine, a RBC carrying oxygen. However this is not the case, merely a comparison made for comprehension’s sake. The value you provide is, in reality, your soul, the fuel that keeps the greater machine alive. An intelligent being would use this to further itself, to take form and shape. Humanity is not intelligent, merely a mold, with the simple goal of growth.

The greater machine’s goals are rudimentary, similar to a simpler being such as a fungi or plant. It exists to survive. It exists to eat and s**t and reproduce and kill off its competitors. From an evolutionary standpoint. Humanity is very limited. And very stagnant. Perhaps one day it will evolve into a greater form, something capable of coordination. Something capable of reason, and innovation, of reason beyond basic survival. Evolution, however, cannot be forced, and this is humanity's great flaw. It is stagnant. It is like a tumor, it is incapable of regulating itself, it is simply capable of eating and growing and dying without a limiter, a limiter build into cells to prevent them from annihilating the organism it exists within. And that is what will be the fall of humanity, the lack of bars, our own power will eat us alive, and we are incapable of the thought necessary to save ourselves.