@grow-pro Great post, it got me thinking a lot. I think the ant is a great symbol for strength and resilience. But I also think the reasons for which it is a fantastic metaphor for those traits also explain why an endless fight is "worth" the struggle to the ant and why a confined existence is "worth" the trouble to a person. The ant, incapable of analytical thought and driven only by primal urges is more analogous to a warrior or a zealot specifically than to a human generally. The capacity for sociopathy and the ability to rationalize that sociopathy (even by its victims) require uniquely higher modes of thought, and unfortunately the latter allows for a proliferation of the former. Our capacity to self-reflect gives us the ability to understand how to live free; but our historical acceptance of a “tolerable” level of violence and our collective unwillingness to approach the world thoughtfully prevents greater freedom from becoming a certainty. Hopefully, through spreading of knowledge and greater philosophical debate, the dream will morph into reality.

“Live free or die, death is not the worst of evils.”
-General John Stark