Steven Johnson The Myth Of The Ant Queen Analysis

In “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, author Steven Johnson reveals to us the complex system of ants and how relatable it is to our community. I think the main purpose of this piece is to display how every community, big or small, has their own functioning ways of doing things without an “authority figure” necessarily guiding them. As the title suggests, the queen ant of the colony does not tell each worker ant what to do. Each ant knows its job because of its natural instincts and intelligence. Johnson also gives us another example by using the flourishing city of Manchester. He explains how overtime the inhabitants subconsciously divided the lower-class people from the higher working class. No one told these people what to do but somehow their