Thoughts on society and the human race

[Ace Otana]

Wait you've just moved the goalposts. You asked are ants smarter. Then you start talking about teamwork. I never doubted ants have amazingly good teamwork. But I was responding to the notion that ants are smarter than us.

Even still, the notion you are going for is simply not viable. Humans can't be like ants because we have not evolved that way. The very thing which has put us at the top of the food chain is freedom of thought. The ability to think for ones self and come up with ideas. Ants don't do this, and that is why they are walking around carrying sticks, whilst we are sending people to space.

This whole argument is rather silly.

Many people do underestimate so very much of the natural world. Its really hard to transfer what I see to others. Its hard to send in words. I can only try.

In some ways they are smarter. Because we lower ourselves by our thoughts and actions. Knowing how to build a gun is not smart when it is designed to kill one of your own. It defeats the point of purpose of having intelligence. What is smart? Is building a nuclear warhead intelligent or is it not? It's purpose is to kill ourselves. If ants could build such a thing, would they use it on each other?
If we sent ourselves into oblivion and ants survived, would we still be smarter, more intelligent? I'll leave this for you to ponder. It's not the ability but the intelligence behind one's actions.

Also corporation, which is something we can learn from ants. Imagine a city, where everyone worked for the better of the city and themselves. There is no crime or corruption. Everyone worked for each other and themselves. Imagine the amount of corporation and efficiency there would be. An ant colony functions this way exactly.
Animals and insects have nothing to learn from us, but we have tons to learn from them. We're idiots, animals and insects are not.