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From the point where our ancestors started making tools like this, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
We are often told that we are what we eat; it might be truer to say that we are what our ancestors, with great difficulty, learnt to eat.
It’s a discouragingly familiar strategy. You win hearts and minds at home by focusing on the threats from abroad, but the weapons that you need to crush the enemy also come in handy when you’re dealing with domestic opponents. The political rhetoric of foreign aggression is backed up by very brisk policing at home.
