Humans have been around for 250,000 years. Only the last 4,000 of them have mattered.
So what were we doing for nearly 250,000 years? We hid in caves, huddled around small campfires, afraid of the things we didn't understand: explanations for how the sun rose, monsters with human heads and bird bodies, and living stones. So we called them “gods” and “demons,” and begged them for forgiveness and prayed for salvation.
Then their numbers began to dwindle, while ours grew. As there were fewer and fewer things to fear, we started looking at the world more rationally. But the inexplicable things never disappeared, as if the universe were deliberately showing us how absurd and incomprehensible it could be.
Humans can no longer live in fear. Nothing can protect us. We have to protect ourselves.
While others live in the sunlight, we must fight them in the shadows and keep them from being exposed to the public, so that everyone else can live in a rational, ordinary world.
