Friday, February 25, 2011

Election Day

For centuries, the bee was the ultimate symbol of well-governed industry. Observers interpreted bee society as a judicious model for that of humans, all about order and everyone being able to contribute and mutual benefit and being stronger by working together.


Now, this was in the days before David Attenborough, and all those studies of the bee waggle-waggle dances. There are aspects of bee-life we probably wouldn't want to emulate... rigid class systems and the killing of baby princesses, for starters. And no-voting, unlike our own society :-)

Yet as an aspirational thing, a guiding star, I do like the idea of well-governed industry.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Inspirational. I like the idea too that the bee facilitates, connects, that its role is all about interdependence , not only within the hive but on a wider plane. The individual elements of nature dependent on the bee connecting flower with flower.

Orlaith said...

Wow - that is so very true. Quite awe-inspiring.

*And* let's not forget their waggle-waggle dance: 'I like to move it move it...'

:-)