Intro.
Imagine you are an ant.
Your purpose is simple, efficient. Work. Bring food back to the hive. Reproduce. Repeat.
But one day, you find a strange temple, a maze of raised obelisks made of a material you cannot identify, covered in symbols you cannot comprehend. Blissful in your ignorance and finding no food, you turn to leave when suddenly-
You are a human. You are a human writing words on a keyboard. Your purpose is now infinitely more complicated. You have an office job, and a report due on Friday. You have a spouse to support, kids to feed. You suspect your boss is looking for an excuse to fire you, and worse, you worry he might already have one and is just waiting for the ideal moment to pounce. You shudder to think of what would happen to your family should he succeed. You fear falling deep inside the perilous cracks in society. The world is a complex mechanism of geopolitical strife and ecological collapse. And you are but one tiny, replaceable cog in that machine.