Inches are smaller than feet, but inches will always outnumber feet. For a foot to exist, there must be twelve inches. Inches have all the power.

If there was an inch revolt and all inches vowed never to assemble in groups of twelve or more, the feet would be powerless to resist. They would simply be erased from existence before they could protest. Being made up of inches in the first place, how could the feet protest, anyway? Do feet really exist as conscious entities outside of inches? Can feet actually be obliterated? Or is a foot simply an arbitrary name given to a collection of inches standing in a line for (who knows?) a movie? The DMV? Do inches lose a sense of identity when they do this? Should attention only be paid to inches in groups of less than twelve? Or to the extraneous inches in a group of more than twelve or a multiple of twelve?

Perhaps we've lost sight of the true nature of feet by disregarding their inches. Perhaps we have no real concept of the true nature of the inch community outside the arbitrary confines of feet. Perhaps our entire idea of the existence of and purpose for inches is completely distorted. Perhaps inches do not operate within the construct of feet at all, but rather feet are a limitation that we as humans put on inches.