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it's all part of the fiction... if indeed humans were designed to do what it is you are saying it would have been quite natural to fall in line. as natural as say eating or farting or walking. Humans imagined and made up classes and social order. The rules to maintain social order are not natural to humans - they must be taught! Society must put conscious effort towards enforcing this order. A good example is say... back in the days of the Sumerians where Hammurabi crafted some 282 laws all of which were in his own words chosen by "the gods Anu and Enlil, for the enhancement of the well-being of the people". It placed different penalties when a 'superior man' was killed to what one was supposed to pay when a 'commoner' or a commoner woman or slave was 'worth'. Much later akina Thomas Jeffeson came up with a different 'idea' as he and company held that "these 'truths' to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - No commoner no Superior man... just all men (white men then). The idea was polished when Negros were considered "Men" as well as women joined the ranks of the referred to "Men". all these ideas that have been "inspired by God" are taught to humans and then codified into "laws" and then we have lawyers doing their bidding. The very fact that we have a thread called "On social class" and not whether humans fart or poop is an indicator that it's not as "natural" as you would think of it. Not as natural as say the laws of gravity! Researchers have taken time to study ants and bees and they continue to get marveled by the intricate nature of these societies. each bee does exactly what it's supposed to do. No bee aspires to be something else. While there are nursing bees, worker bees, drones, soldiers, queens - there are no lawyer bees or teacher bees. The order of bees is natural - no arguments among them on workers rights or whether drones should live fuller lives - no... their order is in their DNA. Not human order - human order is a product of our inter-subjective consciousness - a good product... like plastic but not a natural one.
So there are no "wrong people in the wrong roles" - there are "WHAT WE CONSIDER wrong people in the wrong roles". our consideration is colored by the goggles we view our reality using.
SOCIAL ORDER WAS MADE UP IN THE SAME WAY WE MADE UP MANY OTHER THINGS LIKE COUNTRIES,ROLES, HUMAN RIGHTS,GOOD MANNERS, LAWS, GENDER, RULES OF FOOTBALL. This is not meant to trivialize these thing but to remove them from a pedestal of "natural" things. Therefore, the phrase 'God ordained' comes in the long line of similar statements that are nothing but another way of shifting responsibility of the not so palatable outcome of your ideas and thoughts from you (the creator of the idea) to God. Whom of course we cannot question!

Masukuma's argument does not need to be restated. It is beautiful and clear just the way it is.

- thanks @Kusadikika! I don't know why I am doing this but here we go

2. A critical question we may also ask is: Do colonies of a similar species of ants exhibit behavioral and any other differences?

The answer is 'Yes'.

So if there are differences in colony characteristics, even in what we may define as 'the same field', for example in the same farm.

Wouldn't we then say that the ants are engaged in fictionalizing?

And How would we account for the source of this 'fictionalizing'?

Finally, how is ant fictionalizing different from human fictionalizing?

Let's not nitpick. the difference between ants and humans is that HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF HIERARCHY... capable of many things including being social... being rational. being irrational. being cooperative and being uncooperative. being emotional.. being unemotional e.t.c. humans are CAPABLE OF ALL THOSE THINGS WE ATTRIBUTE THEM OF 'BEING'. depending on the prevailing ideology and with reinforcement - humans apply themselves to work on certain trait. The same species not too long ago applied themselves at killing each other and over 70 million of it's own were killed. why? not because the individual soldiers doing the killing had grudges - no... they had to obey 'orders'. heck during world war 1 - troupes were fighting on Christmas eve... had a truce and played football together on Christmas day and went on with fighting on boxing day. The differences we see in countries are simply because of this. What brand of fiction one chose to apply. Remember not all of these fictions.. (ideologies to those who feel offended) are the same towards working towards a certain end. a bunch of people in a territory called themselves USA and applied a different set of 'ideologies' from the people south of that place and ended up with different results. We Africans have subjected ourselves to obeying certain fictions that have ended us up where we are. heck no 2 neighboring countries are the same. Kenya applied itself to a different type of fiction and still is to what was applied south, east, west and north. Same human beings. different fiction.... sorry 'ideology'. bees don't have that. same species of bees or ants don't have 'variety'. same hive here and a hive 2 kms away have exactly the same structure. the same way children in Kenya suckle the same as children in Kiribati. People in Mongolia mate (the act of in and out) in the same way as people in Jamaica. People in Canada walk in the same way as people from tribes in Papua New Guinea that have never seen outside human beings for years. Do they cook the same? no! <-- subject of fiction. Do they both have women? Yes! Do they treat 'women' the same? no! so babies suckle the same? yes! it's our responsibility to pick the right fiction... sorry ideology that works towards a certain goal and apply ourselves at it. Singapore and Malasyia are next door neighbours - singapore has less than 6 million people. almost the same as number of luhyas in kenya. Malaysia has 27million people - over 4 times the number of people in Singapore. Yet Singapore has a higher GDP than Malaysia... they are next to each other. why? SAME HUMAN BEINGS DIFFERENT TYPE OF FICTION. so don't come here supporting your hierarchical structure telling us it's natural and 'God Ordained' and that's is the sole reason we should follow it - show us examples of WHAT IT CAN DO WHEN WE APPLY OURSELVES TO YOUR VERSION OF FICTION and you will not get an argument from me.... because that's the type of fiction I follow.

There can never be an ant without a colony.

And neither a human without a settlement.

Therefore the first ant or the first human can only be met in abstracted space-time. The dream-vision.

The dream-vision is the true ruler of ants and humans, and all other living things.

It is the allotter of roles and classes.

Hierarchy is the dispersal of light in a prism. And the prism is the context.

Where is that friend of yours if not, dead?

Reasoning is not a strength of yours. Maybe preaching.

There's a social class for folks like you. You know which one?

Strength in numbers, the king wouldn't be without them

Sonko as governor