It can be said that hive-living
creatures, like the
ant or the burrowing
naked mole-rat, share a
collective intelligence. In the case of ants or the Borg, the
individual has no concept of itself. There is no personal concern: individuals
lay down their lives as necessary for the
good of the
group. Add to that tenet a reliable system of mass
communication and you've got a great society for the promotion of the group. There are no
heroes, alas, in the hive...but the
hive itself is the
organism, that which must live and succeed.
Some fear the hive mind and speculate that humanity is evolving that way with the kind of technology we're becoming increasingly more reliant upon. Not me, though. I'm witnessing just the opposite: maybe we're not getting more enlightened, but we're certainly becoming more vocal about our individuality...nonconformity is the standard we conform to where I live.
A humbabba-rescued nodeshell--your donations at work.