Thralls to group instincts

Maybe bees and ants don’t mind being thralls to group instincts but people, I feel, do. And so the question that human beings must ask is, “How do I live my own life and survive, even prosper, while sharing the load of the greater culture?”

— Walter Mosley, 2016

From the book Folding the Red Into the Black: Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century