"Researchers learned that ants that perform specific tasks are no more efficient than regular ants. 'It turns out,' said scientist Anna Dornhaus, 'that the ones that are specialized on a particular job are not particularly good at doing that job.'"
(Harper's Weekly Review, Harper's Magazine, 12/02/08)
"The fact that a man is publicly useful, that he is a wheel, a function, is evidence of a natural predisposition; it is not society, but the only sort of happiness that the majority are capable of, that makes them intelligent machines. To the mediocre mediocrity is a form of happiness; they have a natural instinct for mastering one thing, for specialization."
(Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist)
