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@hexbear.netANT GENERAL
Ants are famous for getting things done, right? But how do the get anything done without a strict hierarchy, without a foreman to give orders, without a little ant king and tiny ant knights to get those lazy bastards to work?
When one ant is far away from the colony, and comes across something worth carrying back, it begins to pull it, and gives off a recruitment pheromone in the effort. Others smell that pheromone, and they come to help, because that's what they do. Now, the individual who has come to the task second begins to pull, and the first ant is now pushing. Soon there are many ants involved, and still only one ant is pulling. Every other ant pushes in the direction of the most recent individual to have joined the task, who pulls. This is likely because the newest individual has the most up to date information about where the colony is in relation to the object being carried, and so with each new ant that joins the task, the direction becomes more accurate.
Picture it like you and a few friends trying to carry a couch inside but you are blindfolded. Someone new joins and starts pulling, and you all just go with the direction that new guy is going. Simple as.
(I will dump more ant lore before this general closes)
Don't be melodramatic, it is perfectly possible to both contribute to society and produce a 4 hour dissertation on the subject of The Dark Side of Stardew Valley Lore
I do agree though if the point is that these people are clearly willing to do things but the only path that seems available is pop culture analysis, it's just that tbh it's still a pretty small number of people producing these video essays compared to the sheer number of people in a society.
What the fuck this is MY trivia to bring into convos this is THEFT
(Ants also do complex geometry by instinct and they even triangulate positions with the sun as reference, they are amazing)
The entire album Symbol by Susumu Yokota might hit the right nerve, though it's heavier on the dreamlike side and doesn't have lyrics. I use it for driving, writing, anything that needs a kind of hypnotized but functional state of mind.
Just want to throw in that if there's any available way for you to handle insect infestations without bug bombing or fumigation you should try those first. Those kill everything in the house, yes, but it wipes out all the predators of the pest insects you hate. Those predators take much longer to replenish than the pest insects, and so your next wave of pests will be much bigger without those biological controls.
Doing this kind of fantasy for your political representatives is of course cringe but I am much more bothered by the way this is written
Hard to figure out why exactly, maybe it's because it's structured like a TV scene with the narrative voice just being inane commentary? Like what does that "this is going to fun" at the end add? It would be better to just end it at the smile.
I, Claudius is perfect television from start to finish but I dunno if it counts since it was a major production with a bunch of the best actors of all time in it.
See I remember being interested in the stuff from a much more indistinct lens, stuff like our instinctive fear and disgust towards certain stimuli (seeing a snake in the grass, trypophobia, why certain bugs freak people out more than others) but most of the people I met who were into evopsych just wanted to study IQ, I assume because it would let them categorize people into tiers of worth. I hated it both because it was a hiding spot for racism and because it was ruining what could be a pretty interesting field looking at mankind's part in the evolutionary narrative of mammals.
It sucks ass but JP's particular derangement is honestly pretty entertaining, moreso with the way his character has developed since his Journey Into the Dark (his brain damage from the medical coma). Get one of those ai tools to read in his deflating balloon voice and it should be bearable in chunks