I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov

Now how I play a part, as an individual, in the foreseen course of history, I don't know. Perhaps I have no definite part, since the Plan leaves individuals to indeterminacy and free will. But I am important and they — they, you understand — may at least have calculated my probable reaction. So I distrust my impulses, my desires, my probable reactions.

In fact, it was part of the Tyrannian military tradition that a little discomfort on the part of the soldier was good for discipline.

If it's the product of nonhuman minds and hands, what may seem primitive may, in actual fact, be merely nonhuman.