Thoughts on society and the human race

[Napoléon]

This may sound odd, but I believe that the human race could take a great lesson from ants. Yes, I said ants. Ants don't mindlessly bicker, they all work as a whole for the mutual benifit of the colony. Always moving forward without a single hitch. We seem much more affited to moving backwards in progress. I will be devoloping more on these thoughts later.

This is plain stupid. Ants work as a hive mind. They work that way because they EVOLVED that way. Can we spray down scents to alert our fellow humans that there is trouble? No. Can we carry 10x our own body weight? No. Is there one person who gives birth to all offspring in a 'city'? No. The comparison of ants and humans as a social structure is just plain dumb. It doesn't work like that.
Ants work as a colony together because it benefits THEM for survival and progression. Not us.
We work as seperate minds collaborating information because that is what benefits US.

And what is the parameter of progress? What do you measure progress as?

Personally I'd say that the more 'progressive species' is one which has built city upon city across the globe, sent their people to the moon and back, communicates efficiently over extremely huge distances, can transport themselves efficiently over huge distances, can get food at a whim, can survive in every corner of the earth, can use FIRE etc.

Ants can do some amazing things no doubt, but lets face it they ain't got shit on us.


As for the rest of what you said, I really don't get the self loathing which so many of us seem to have. The human race has achieved some truly amazing things, the very fact someone across the globe can interpret and understand what I am simply typing into a keyboard from my bedroom, is truly amazing for instance.
Sure there are downsides to our society, people can be major dickheads. But at the end of the day you can take absolutely NOTHING away from what we as a species have achieved.