The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids arenโt even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madmanโs conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
Robert A. HeinleinThere are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
Robert A. HeinleinAll societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
Robert A. Heinlein