When life on earth evolved from the primordial soup, a simple law was written into the existence of all beings. "You are being hunted. And you must hunt.", this did not change as time went on, through billions of years of evolution life has been in the struggle of fighting to consume, and fighting to avoid consumption. Etched into even the genetic code of entire species is the picture of the Enemy, the Predator, the End.
When humanity came to be we were small, frightened things. The things around us far more dangerous and capable than we, monsters far bigger than us, so we hid away, sharpened our spears, planned our attack, and hunted.
When we killed the mega fauna, secured our future as a species, we looked into the dark. And saw monsters. We saw teeth and claws and venom, we looked to the natural world that dared still hunt us, the mega fauna were gone, but they were the easy targets. Still there remained the Enemy, the Predator, the End. So we made new weapons, and hunted.
When we proved ourselves superior to the animals, we secured ourselves footholds, rare was it now for any but the youngest of us to go missing. We had become a genetic Enemy, Predator, and End to things no longer a threat to us. And when we thought ourselves safe, we looked into the dark, and saw monsters. We saw infernal things, dead things come to life, terrors of massive scales and eyes that kill, we saw ourselves transformed into beasts. We knew our job was not done, there were still things that dare hurt us, but we could not find it, we could not hurt it. So we brought together our minds, and hunted.
When we conquered the world, when we looked in the deepest corners of the earth and failed to find our myths and legends, when we built cities scraping the sky, the fear did not fade, we looked into the dark, and saw monsters. We saw eternal torment, we saw titans of nuclear might, machines awoken to End us, we saw a rainbow of enslavement and anarchy, chaos and subjugation, we saw Enemies in every dark corner of our cities. So we loaded our guns, and hunted.
When we united we knew we were finally safe, every corner of the earth was explored, the ocean disproved to house the leviathans we feared, we cured the plagues, avoided the worst industrial disasters, and though we still saw violence and strife amongst ourselves, life was better, we had laws and balances to keep ourselves in check. We breathed a sigh of relief, we finally looked to the dark above our heads.
We saw eldritch things, we saw paperclip maximizers, we saw grabby things, we saw devourers and cosmic threats in more places than we could count. Most importantly we saw intelligent things, we saw others like us, though we were so tired and we desired peace we knew it could not be had, for you are being hunted, you must hunt. We imagined the picture of the Enemy, the Predator, the End.
We saw monsters.
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