"For The Colony!” and Other Phrases to Comfort Ourselves In the Absuridity of Modern Life

– Harvester ants inside a gel farm. Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Whenever my wife and I are too tired to get up and go to work, or have to do something we really would love to just not do we recite to one another: “For the colony!” and sometimes add: “And all the oppressed bugs of the world!” and top it with a good laugh.