- They live in massive colony complexes with as many as hundreds of thousands of members (I'm an urbanite to the core and I want to live in an arcology)
- All their food goes into a communal store that any ant can take from when they're hungry (based)
- They collectively work to maintain the colony. There is no "those people" or "that neighborhood" (based)
- Children raised collectively - no nepo babies, no orphans (based)
- Most of them are unconcerned with having children - the colony itself is their legacy (extremely relatable)
- Some species readily integrate "orphan ants" (those who have lost their queen); within days, they're family (contrast this to how our own media talks about stateless people and refugees)
- When one of them is attacked, a whole swarm jumps into the fray to protect each other, compensating for individual weakness with unity of purpose and sheer numbers (we call that solidarity)
Ants are fucking awesome. I want to be more like them 