Thursday, August 16, 2012

EL ALACRAN Y LAS HORMIGAS SOCIALISTAS

Or, THE SCORPION AND THE SOCIALIST ANTS.

El sr J spotted a dead scorpion surrounded by ants outside our back door:


Dozens of ants were working together to carry the scorpion up the wall:


Just think, if ants were individualistic instead of socialistic, they would have to invent antsy assault weapons to keep the other ants away, contrive to misinterpret their Constitution in order to keep their deadly weapons, and learn to read so they could peruse bad novels by Ayn Rand:


And they would have to hoard their scorpions in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands to avoid sharing them with others, and pass them on to their children who would then claim that they became wealthy in scorpions through their own individual efforts.

Observe:  the imminent victory of the working class, which through communal struggle has elevated the prized scorpion nearly to the roof and will eventually share freely the fruit of their labor with their fellows:


For my mother:  Of the 1000+ known species of scorpion, only 25 have venom that is deadly to humans; most of those belong to the family Buthidae.

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