DESTRUCTION WELCOMED
A pleasure-mad society needs to take a lesson from the Sanguin ants and their affair with the Golden-Haired Beetle. “Their normal diet is plain, often to the point of austerity, but they love unusual and exotic tid-bits and will go to any lengths to satisfy this craving. This beetle exudes from the base of its golden hairs some secretion which ants find irresistible. So it is allowed to do anything it likes, even lay its own eggs, which soon turn to grubs. So besotted do the workers become that they feed the beetle with food intended for their own infants, and even with food reserved for the queen. Worse, much worse, they allow the beetle to kill their infants and eat them. They even kill their own infants themselves and feed them to this stranger. The beetle repays them with a generous allowance of the secretion they crave… The end is not immediate. The colony may last two years more, but the…
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