what examples are there in literature & philosophy as to the wisdom

catweazle · #1 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 06:48 PM

associated with bees&hive social structure maybe this would also come under folk widom or utopian ideas

shevek_v · #2 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 06:48 PM

Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellstrom's_Hive

The Armchair Explorer · #3 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 06:51 PM

The nearest example I can think of is when the young King Arthur gets transformed into an ant in the novel "The Once and Future King," though that image is a profoundly negative one of total conformity and repression.

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