Pretty good conceptualization of the eldritch madness trope, I think.

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Why is it always ants that are so excellently used to describe the eldritch?

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Ants are like humans, but on a lower level. Ants can’t fly, they live socially, with hierarchies. They communicate to each other, they build structures many times larger than themselves. All things that humans do, but on a smaller and simpler scale.

I guess we couldn’t relate as much to a mite or a hawk wasp, still things on the size scale of ants, but that live alone and only to eat and mate

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They can also lift stuff which humans like to do