RE: The Colony and the Crown: Who Actually Rules
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That comparison between an insect colony and modern institutions is a pretty wild way to frame things. Makes you wonder how anyone could ever untangle all those overlapping interests once they are built that way.
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That is the exact right question, and the honest answer is that you cannot, not from the inside. The overlap is not a mess, it is the design. A colony was never assembled by agreement, so it cannot be reformed back into a market. Every fix you make is still inside the hive, which is why every reform quietly becomes one more cell. The untangling has to come from outside the colony. That is why the essay does not end on a policy, it ends on a King. Which of the five do you think is hardest to see through from where you sit?