What makes me curious is what do the knives and forks know that we don’t?  Or is it not that,  Is it that when you are willing to do anything to keep power that in itself is an edge.

They do seem to be built for doing harm, and if you combine that with a willingness to do harm it does seem a recipe for long term power.  I have been around a long time (and been a knife and a spoon) and as I go along it gets harder and harder to believe the spoons will ever be cruel enough to rule.