Size Matters Ants Cleverer Than Us

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One ant cannot survive on its own. With humans, one ant makes it and runs away from the collective. It might even call family 'ghetto.'

Size matters. That’s why I could not log on. The machine rejected the password, but it was gracious enough to tell me why. Capital letters were on.

Thanks very much Your Majesty. Much obliged. I tapped the CAPS button. Voila! Now I can work. Why must a little thing like that reject the password? Because size matters. Ants use their brain because they don’t have bones and muscles. They also don’t have the frightening speed of domestic cats and wild cats such as leopards.

Ants don’t have sizes like human beings. There’s no baby, toddler, teen, adult and old age. It’s one size fits all. Common sense, that’s the password. One ant will detect a tiny source of food like a bread crumb. It re-tweets the good news and before you know it, the gang carries it like an Olympics’ relay race.

It’s the reverse with humans. Size matters, but the bigger the better. Size is what sets us apart from each other. The internet is a case in point. That’s why we suspend common sense and safety to get more followers and page views.

We’re not like ants, that rely on closeness for survival. Size makes us desirable to the rest of the pack. There’s a myth of the tall dark and handsome, not realizes that the ‘tall’ compromises some parts of the body. Size matters, that’s why a Hollywood actor became a U.S. president. More recently, a reality T.V. producer became the 45th U.S. President.

Development is the capacity to build bigger tractors, cars, houses, yachts,  and tanks for the Ukraine War at the expense of the environment. The result is strange things like COVID-19. Common sense is officially dead.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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