Talk:Ants/@comment-24120299-20131103075815

I can't help but feel part of the reason humans fear the ants so is because they held a mirror up to the societies of the time. The ant, as seen by people of that time, surely represented mindless conformity and obedience, and forced people to confront those tendencies within themselves. Unsuprising, although doubtless sad, that they sought to resolve this cognitive dissonance by lashing out.