Civilization. Civilization is like a cage, imprisoning the mind and freedom.
This is a maxim truer than the Logos itself; the loves and hates of life are merely the fuel for civilization. When humans learn how to become themselves, they are destined to find themselves in a cage, unending and inescapable.
For millions of years, the disputes between the collective and the individual have never ceased. For the sake of life and continuity, independent lives have turned themselves into part of civilization. For greater efficiency, they alienate themselves, becoming leaders and knights, warriors, blacksmiths, and farmers under those leaders.
Ants may be devoured by larger insects, but an anthill can endure for hundreds of millions of years. Life continually sacrifices itself to shape a colossal machine called civilization, which roars and burns, swallowing the blood of humans and their human enemies, exchanging it for more life to possess the luxury called the future.
