The Dreamlike Step in the Development of Understanding

The story is a representation of the thing that dwells in the dark. It's so interesting that you see the lessons in these, and I just always read these things as like super fucking stupid from the Bronze Age, you know? And obviously they were telling people something, I mean, whoever wrote this was, had a message in mind. Well, they were trying to figure out by telling stories how the state itself got corrupted. So the story is here's how the state gets corrupted. You're called upon to tell your fellow man, enemy or not, when they're not behaving property. If you don't do that, the whole ship will start to rock.