Political power, in Mark Corske's account, is not a natural feature of human society but a machine, invented in the Bronze Age and refined for six thousand years to convert ordinary human energy into authority and privilege for rulers. Adapted from his book, the film builds this argument through animation and narration rather than interviews or archival footage, tracing how armed central authority first took hold and how it has operated ever since, from ancient states to the present. Corske treats war, hierarchy, and the state not as unfortunate necessities but as engineered tools of extraction, built by and for a privileged few at the expense of everyone else. The film pushes back directly against the idea that domination is simply human nature, framing it instead as a historical invention that can be undone. It closes on an explicitly anarchist conclusion: that armed central authority should be abolished and replaced with voluntary, peaceful communities, presenting this not as utopian wish but as the film's stated solution to what it calls a human emergency.