Who's Superior - Them or Us? - Part 3

Ironically I was at the library today and spied the DVD you see on the right sitting on the shelf waiting for me to check it out. Here's an excerpt from the description on the back cover:

.. All ants belong to extended families and carry their prey home to share. Unselfishness is the rule. Everything they do is for their colony's good. For them, socialism works.

I haven't watched it yet but I intend to do so soon since ants have always fascinated me. What I found interesting was that last sentence, For them, socialism works. As I wrote in the previous blog, ants do indeed work selflessly and ceaselessly to get the job done. We should be so energetic.

But the thing is, it's all done from instinct. They don't think about what they are doing and they are not conscious of what they've achieved. If they were able to realize, I think, therefore I am, would they still operate in the same way? Socialism does work for ants and it can probably work for any other society in which the inhabitants don't have the ability to think. But once that ability is enabled, then what?