On Societies Of Organism article

Lewis Thomas speaks about termites in his article. He states that termites have a life of its own, minding its own business and eating things it sees in its path. Such as wood or bacteria. They are apparently swimmining by itself and untouched. This way of describing a termite makes one feel as if a termite is just another organism, it is innocuous and harmless.Humans are similarly alike. They mind their own business and each of us have our own lives to attend to. We work and eat and sleep everyday just to survive. We do not want to be bothered like a termite. Thus, we are somewhat resembling a termite's life. Termites work together to bring a house down, like termites humans can collaborate to get things done faster, termites and humans are basically 1 organism that can be deadly to just about anything if it comes together.