METAPHOR

Metaphor

Metaphor

Something is up in the human hive. If I think about evolutionary intelligences, the metaphor of the human hive discloses something about myslef, not just at the city level, but at the humanity level. While, i can't know these things clearly (being mere drones within the system of emergent patterns), I suspect until this point the metaphor of the hive did not really apply to humanity, only to the colonies of our parts. Our cities and organising structures (i.e. trade cartels, workforce corporate identities, professional designations, and even generational patterns of consumption) have been our isolated hives, which ...