Hobbes and the Ants

Drawing by Sara Bizarro, 2022 ©

Thomas Hobbes, also known as The Monster of Malmesbury for being an atheist and making God so mad that he caused the great fire of London 1666, also had a bleak, some may say realistic, view of human nature. In his view, humans have impulses, freedom, and self-preservation. This means humans just want to do whatever they want to do unimpeded and they also want to survive. This is a problem because freedom, when left unchecked, leads to issues with…