Chapter 272: The King's Meeting (3)
In short, in the eyes of the kings, the series of practices of the king of the gods are deviant and not in line with tradition, let alone the overall interests of the male ant class.
So, whether the king was alive or not, the Council of Kings felt that these mistakes should be corrected. As for whether the protagonist will listen, the king meeting really didn't take it into account.
The reason why the king meeting did this is that it is not used to both conflicts of interest, and perhaps there are more reasons for interests.
As a male ant class, whether it is a king or a king, there is an overall class interest, that is, to ensure the dominance of this class in the entire ant kingdom and even the ant world.
But in fact, primitive ants were not a patriarchal clan society dominated by male ants.
The ant society, which was previously a matriarchal society, is reflected in the fact that the queen ant is the theoretical ruler of the entire ant community, and she is also the common mother of all members of the community.
Going back then, all the major decisions of the more primitive ant colonies were made collectively by the worker ants (females).
That's right, the primitive ant community, including the ants of the human world, controlled and decided the fate of the entire community, and it was the worker ants.
Worker ants are non-fertile females who are responsible for the daily work of the entire nest and determine the choice of whatever they encounter.
For example, if there is food at the junction with a neighboring ant colony, if you go there, there may be a conflict, whether to go there, etc.
Under the control of genes, different worker ants will make the same decision most of the time when faced with the same thing, which ensures the consistency of the whole community.
At that time, male ants were nothing more than parasites on the nest. They don't produce, they do nothing all day long, but they have to consume precious food.
Even when the annual wedding ceremony begins, many male ants are reluctant to go out to mate, because participating in the wedding ceremony means that they will leave the ant nest and must not return.
The wedding ceremony itself is a life of death, and after the ceremony, the male ants will be forbidden to return to the nest, and they will starve to death, freeze to death, or be killed outside by predators.
At this time, the worker ants will even violently expel the male ants and force them to go out to participate in the wedding flight. It can also be seen from this that in the primitive ant society, the status of male ants is very low, they are just a transfer of sperm banks.
However, with the development of the ant civilization in this world, although the class of ants has been solidified, the division of power has been slowly adjusted.
Due to the low intelligence of worker ants (including soldier ants), they are often unable to ensure that joint decision-making maximizes the interests of the collective.
The queen ant, because of its strict protection and sufficient provisions, and its long lifespan, their intelligence level began to grow rapidly under some unknown external stimulation, and far exceeded the limitations of the insect's original simple brain nerves, reaching a very high level.
The queen herself has a high status in the nest, and when they show great intelligence, it is only natural that they gain the support of her children and become the de facto rulers of the nest.
Some ant colonies have a single queen system, and they have a supreme ruler, while some ants have a multiple queen system, and multiple queens make decisions together, just like the worker ants did in the beginning.
In this way, out of the preference for highly intelligent individuals, the ant society transitioned from the previous simple whole (worker ant) decision-making system to the queen-ant decision-making system. The supreme power was transferred from the worker ants to the queen.
This change resembles the evolution of primitive human societies.
According to the division of some scholars, the primitive society of mankind went through two periods: primitive groups and clan communes. The clan commune went through two stages: the matrilineal clan commune and the patrilineal clan commune.
The primitive group is the group in which primitive humans initially produced and lived together. It begins with the transition from ape to man. The combined strength of the swarm and collective action are used to compensate for the lack of individual self-defense capabilities.
The formation of primitive groups is forced by the external environment. In order to survive, primitive human beings gathered in groups, worked collectively, lived collectively, and collectively fought against nature. This combination of collective interdependence constituted the earliest primitive group and began to have a certain primitive organizational significance. This primitive group is the earliest prototype of human community organization, but strictly speaking, the organization of this kind of community organization is still unstable, and there are no real organizational principles and regulations.
In group life, the rights and status of individuals are basically equal, but the relationship between mother and child is closer, so maternal power can play some role.
The primitive group is the prototype of human society, the initial stage of primitive society, which is equivalent to the social organization of human beings in the early and middle Paleolithic Age. In the later period of the primitive group, blood families appeared, and gradually transitioned to a matrilineal society.
Matrilineal society, also known as matrilineal clan society, is the first stage of clan society in the early and middle stages of matrilineal clan, that is, the social organization based on matrilineal blood relations.
The basic characteristics of matrilineal clan marriages and clans are: they are always linked by matrilineal blood relations. In the early days, the form of marriage was group marriage. As a result of exogamy, husbands and wives live separately in their respective matrilineal clans, and marital life takes the form of a husband visiting his wife, children living in the mother's house and belonging to the mother's clan, and inheritance of lineage and property in the matrilineal line. During the prosperity of the matrilineal clan, due to the emergence and gradual consolidation of the marriage of couples, the husband moved to the wife's clan to live with the wife.
The transformation of primitive groups into matrilineal clans is due to the fact that after several generations of reproduction, due to the increasing population, the lack of food sources and the impact on life will inevitably split into new blood families. At this time, the new blood family still practiced internal blood marriage. Endogamy leads to a decline in the physical fitness and intelligence level of the offspring, the division of the blood family, and the continuous creation of new blood families. Eventually, a group of blood relatives who could not marry within would be created - clans.
This evolution of ant society is very similar to the evolution of human society.
In the early stage of society, human society was a group of equal groups, and the relationship between mother and child was closer, so the power of mothers was slightly more important. In the ant society, the vast majority of worker ants are equal, and the queen ant also has a certain special status because she is the common mother.
In order to be more adaptable to the living environment and competition, both ants and humans need more intelligent offspring. In this regard, the solution of human society is to change from endogamy to extra-clan marriage, and in order to adapt to this, matrilineal clans were born. And the ant society, due to the huge intellectual gap between different classes, is to transfer decision-making power to a more intelligent individual - the queen ant.