Laws of Media

Laws of Media: The Knife

1. The Knife extends the human body parts of the teeth and nails. The Knife is used for cutting and stabbing. It extends the human bodies physical aspects by allowing it save it's naturally sharp forms for eating and other more basic needs. It also helps the individual more so then the society because its made for one hand not many.

2. The knife replaces sharp stones and weighted objects that had to be combined to cut through materials. Like the arrowhead used by Native Americans, it's sharp and pointed for stabbing and cutting but is fixed with a handle so that a person can wield it without having to grab onto any part of the blade. The old objects become collector items for museums and have become rendered useless due to the advanced materials that allow the knife to last longer and stay sharper.

3. The Knife revies the ideas of caveman till whenever guns became the major weapon in war. Swords, spears, and axes are all similar to the knife. All of these are made from the same basic idea of sharp metal or stone, fixed with handle to protect the user. Not the victim. The knife also revives the idea of close combat relying on the user, not the weapon.

4. When fully pushed the knife will revert into war. Made for hunting and eating, the knife will become war after all it's other uses are exhausted.

The knife started out as a tool for man to hunt and survive, allowing man to kill animals and skin and gut them so they can eat only the parts they need. It also was adapted into arrows that allow them to be used at ranged, even more promoting the survivability of man. But time has found other uses for it such as hurting another or threatening.