Tools

by Jón Örn Loðmfjörð (Lommi)

In elementary school, I learned
that man is the only
animal
that has sex for pleasure
and the only one that
uses tools
(though not necessarily during sex). 

The way I understand it today, all animals
screw just for the fuck of it,
but man is the only one that uses
tools to produce other
tools.

Entire generations before me
deliberated over how tools produce
class divisions.
But what I’m more interested in knowing is
how tools change the way we think. 

Many people find techno monotonous.
DJs fill out spreadsheets,
dragging and dropping sounds into cells
that are plotted down to the last
millisecond. 

Do they start thinking like
their tools?  What part do their tools
really play in their creations?

Translated by Larissa Kyzer.