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.