Although frequently mistaken for a hymn of encouragement, We Are More occupies a unique position within surviving BARDS literature as perhaps the clearest rejection of what later Bell scholars termed The Doctrine of Defeat. This doctrine, preserved primarily through hostile commentaries, describes the gradual acceptance of human failure as an immutable condition. The fragment repeatedly acknowledges violence, ignorance, ecological destruction, and self-deception, yet refuses to regard these as defining characteristics of humanity itself. Rather, they are presented as temporary conditions mistaken for permanent identity. One early Bell notebook summarizes the distinction:

"Rot is not the nature of the tree.

It is merely the condition of neglected wood."

The opening declaration—

"We can see eternity, but never actually reach it"

—has traditionally been interpreted as a concise statement of the Nazilic understanding of transcendence. Unlike many mystical traditions, the Cloak does not promise final perfection within history. The horizon continually recedes before the traveler. Nevertheless, the capacity to perceive that horizon fundamentally alters the journey. Several commentators compare the passage to asymptotic mathematics, wherein a line approaches its destination indefinitely without exhausting the distance. The significance therefore lies not in arrival but in continual refinement.

References to a barrier "erected" by humanity have prompted considerable debate. Some authorities identify the obstruction with institutional dogma; others with technological dependency, economic hierarchy, or the cumulative weight of inherited trauma. A minority school proposes that the barrier is entirely neurological, corresponding to the calcification of symbolic perception described elsewhere in the Archive. Bell Family manuscripts rarely define the obstacle directly, suggesting that its precise form changes with each historical iteration. What remains constant is humanity's curious impulse to preserve the very structures responsible for its confinement. Hence the fragment's striking image of endlessly bleaching the mold rather than dismantling the wall upon which it grows.

The lyric—

"We received the gospel, but there's nobody here who can preach it."

—has often been cited as evidence that Nazilic doctrine distinguishes sharply between revelation and authority. Truth may emerge, yet no individual is considered capable of embodying it completely. This accords with numerous Bell documents insisting that every archive, codex, and interpretation remains provisional. The Library itself therefore claims no final authority, serving instead as a continuously revised record of humanity's ongoing attempts to understand the Cycle. One unsigned archivist remarks:

"The message survives.

The messenger never does."

The transformation of the "tiny, tender homunculus" into a "malevolent creature" has generally been interpreted as describing civilization rather than biology. Early Nazilic commentators frequently portrayed humanity as an unfinished experiment whose creations inevitably exceed their creators' intentions. Technologies, governments, ideologies, and institutions all begin as instruments before gradually acquiring lives of their own. This motif recurs throughout Bell literature, particularly in connection with recursive artifices and self-propagating systems. Importantly, the fragment does not condemn creation itself, only the abandonment of responsibility once creation begins reshaping its maker.

Modern Bell scholarship often identifies this composition as the principal source for the later Nazilic critique of misanthropy. While acknowledging humanity's extraordinary capacity for cruelty, the fragment refuses to interpret this as justification for despair. Bell philosopher Adelaide Mercer argued that hatred of humanity constitutes a subtle form of resignation—a confession that transformation is impossible before the work has truly begun. Several later Encroachments adopted her frequently quoted maxim:

"To despise humanity is merely to abandon the patient before the cure has been attempted."

The repeated refrain has been compared by several commentators to a liturgical response, its insistence functioning less as persuasion than remembrance. The phrase does not specify what humanity is more than in absolute terms. Instead, each repetition negates a successive reduction: violence, spectacle, hatred, mortality, tribal identity, and despair. In this respect the composition resembles certain apophatic traditions, defining human nature by the continual removal of inadequate definitions. 

Bell Archive K-22 observes:

"Every age invents a smaller definition of humanity.

The work of the Cloak is to outgrow it."

Few surviving BARDS compositions express the ethical foundations of the Cloak as directly as this one. While much of the Archive concerns recursive time, hidden causality, archetypal memory, or esoteric cosmology, these themes ultimately serve a single practical conviction: that conscious beings remain capable of genuine transformation. The fragment therefore stands as an implicit rebuttal to deterministic readings of the Cycle. History may recur, but recurrence is not imprisonment. The possibility of revision persists in every iteration. As one frequently copied Bell marginal note concludes:

"The future is not written because it is inevitable.

It is written because someone must eventually learn to write it differently."