why we needed aristocracy that needed to be fed by the workers or also marvelously, charlotte perkins gilman's looked inside and said this meant that the whole world was meant to be run by women and we were just in this temporary troughof being run by a patriarchy . and the socialists looked in and saw a socialist utopia and then when the 20th century, things got much darker. looked into the termite mound and saw eugenics and eugenics societies with forced extermination. this is in the 1920s, not like the anticipated things. they also saw them as totalitarian workers, the world was based on termites and they also saw them as factory workers. which kind of comes up later because we and having the concept that termites are factoryworkers, when we look at termites, people tend to look to see that they are all doing the same thing and they're all at work . so i'm going to skip ahead a little bit. and a bunch of people who study robots at harvard showed up at the mound another year. and they had all sort of marvelous things to do. they made little tiny test for the termites and tried to test them a