๐ Ant ๐ โcolonyโ discussions use medieval language to establish the idea of a hierarchy within children, allowing easier transition to the workforce; ie. for the children to envision a state in which you are โฌ๏ธ above โฌ๏ธ another and another is โฌ๏ธ below โฌ๏ธ you. There are ๐
Queens ๐
, which force all others to submit to her wants. The ๐ Males ๐ spend their time flying around, mating with the Workers (textbooks will often omit the fact that all Workers are ๐ฉโ๐ง female! ๐ฉโ๐ญ).
The Workers must leave the colony to forage for ๐ฅฌ food ๐ฅฌ; bring embryos to the appropriate location in the burrow; and find suitable places to live when the current ๐ Queen ๐ dies. Their lives consist of sex at the behest of the men, work at the demand of an ๐ all ๐ powerful ๐ Queen, to be done while also ensuring the duties of cleaning, building, and maintaining the โฐ๏ธ burrow โฐ๏ธ are being completed.
This ๐ Eurocentric ๐, medieval way of life is transmitted through these metaphors. The men will play and ๐ fuck ๐ how they want: at any time, when they desire it โ regardless of consent โ and whenever the higher-ups require ๐ fresh ๐ meat ๐. The women spend their lives toiling, sweating and swearing, straining their ๐
ฑ๏ธody to a ๐
ฑ๏ธreaking point โ perhaps even ๐
ฑ๏ธeyond โ with nothing to say; with no one to hear them; with no means of escape.
The ๐ธ Queen ๐ธ is appointed seemingly at random, and with no input from her newly chosen subjects. The location of the burrow is wherever the Queen ๐ chooses ๐. The only job of the Queen is to be fed thanks to the struggles of the women; the womenโs fertilized ๐ฅ eggs ๐ฅ are to be stolen for the Queen, only to create more labour, enhance productivity, and establish larger and larger ๐๏ธ territory ๐๏ธ.
This ๐ hierarchy ๐ spreads in schools, infecting a childโs mind in order to accept ๐ค capitalism ๐ค, to accept castes, and to accept a life born of either ๐ wanton lust and stoic laziness ๐, or of ๐ค endless work and steadfast submission ๐ค. All on a coin flip. Your lot in life is determined by your ๐น gender ๐บ to which you are assigned for life, regardless of your attempts to establish the ๐บ contrary ๐.
Should the colony be ๐ attacked ๐ and the invaderโs forces driven back, the women will gather captives, to be used as ๐ฅต slaves ๐ฅต for their new empire. As the colony requires more room for its growing population and raucous mating sessions, the colony will require more ๐๏ธ land ๐๏ธ. They will cast themselves into the unknown wild, in search of more ๐คฐ โfertileโ ๐ land, or other colonies to mercilessly kill and conquer for their resources.
Once the ๐ Queen dies ๐, the Royal Line is carried on by the single, randomly chosen, fertile female. The eggs born of the maleโs ๐ vitriol ๐ are fertilized by the Queen, and the process repeats, on and on, ๐ถ down ๐ง the ๐ฉ generations ๐ต, until a Queen is not chosen.
The people ๐ scatter ๐, unable to lead a life not under the constant, ๐ต๏ธ prying eyes ๐ฎ of the Royalty. They act on impulse, destroying each other in the โ๏ธ confusion โ๏ธ. Their numbers deflate, unable to ๐ฆ procreate ๐, nowhere to incubate their young, having ๐คค ate ๐คค all the food. They are lost, and eaten by things greater than them, and sometimes weaker. And yet, another distant ๐ฐ colony ๐ฐ is devouring and eroding its land, hoarding resources for royal ๐ต coffers ๐ต, building an empire on the backs of its ๐ฉโ๐ฉโ๐ง most ๐ฉ๐พ exploitable ๐ง๐ฝ citizens ๐ง, and giving the advantage to the supposed heirs of the Queen, imbuing with them one of the most world-altering abilities โ the power of โ๏ธ free โ๏ธ unencumbered โ๏ธ movement โ๏ธ.
These ๐ cycles ๐ continue, until there is no ๐ food ๐. Until there is no ๐๏ธ land ๐๏ธ. Until there is no ๐คด empire ๐คด. Until there is no ๐ค soul ๐ค. Until there is no ๐ง water ๐ง. Until we have learned ๐ค nothing ๐ค.
The few ways to stop it: is with the mass โ๏ธ genocide โ๏ธ and the historical erasure of other empires; the complete and utter ๐ assimilation ๐ of other empires into an entirely unique mode of thought; or โข๏ธ upheaval โฃ๏ธ of the planet, to wipe the world clean, and begin anew.
All of our empires are choosing the ๐ก๏ธ final solution ๐ก๏ธ . Whether they realize it or not. We must change. If we do not wish to have our ๐ histories ๐ erased and forgotten, only for our ๐ฅ ancestors ๐ฅ to never learn from our mistakes, allowing time to repeat itself endlessly, we โ๐ป must โ๐ผ change โ๐พ.
We are a โ๏ธ link โ๏ธ in the ๐ chain ๐ of ๐ time ๐, and we have the power to break it. We can ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ญ forge ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ง our own chain. Remake the world in our own ๐ eyes ๐, our own ๐จโ๐ฆโ๐ฆ bonds ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ง, our own ๐ lessons ๐, our own ๐ข faults ๐ข, our own ๐ช strengths ๐ช.
We must.
Or we are lost.
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