Humanity has been reproducing for nearly a million years, but only the last 4,000 have meant anything.
So what were we doing for almost 25,000 years? We hid in caves, huddled around tiny campfires, terrified of the things we didn't understand: explanations for how the sun rose, monsters with human heads and bird bodies, and stones that were alive. So we called them "gods" and "demons," begging them for forgiveness and praying to be saved.
After that, their numbers dwindled, while ours grew. As the things we feared became fewer, we began to view the world more rationally. Yet the inexplicable never disappeared, as if the universe were deliberately putting its absurdity and impossibility on display.
Humanity can no longer live in fear. Nothing can protect us. We must protect ourselves.
While others live in the sunlight, we must fight them in the shadows and keep them hidden from public view, so that everyone else can live in a sane, ordinary world.
We contain. We control. We protect.
