On the other hand human society changes fast from one decade to another. In a completely totalitarian collectivistic society, no one considers what the other individual might need. If the workers need more workers, as with the winged ants, their wings are bitten off, then they have more workers. If no queen is left in a beehive, a working bee larvae is fed differently, then they have another one who rules. Style of Life - Life as a River Sicher's metaphor of the river illustrates the choices that humans make to drift or to take control and influence the situations of life.
People can do all kinds of things in a river, they can drift, i.e., follow the circumstances.
Then they are spit out where the river wants to spit them out. Then another merciful wave comes along and takes them along for a while then spits them out at another place where they do not want to be. Then they think they are the victims of the circumstances of the river. It is also possible, however, for people to go in where they want to, taking the current into consideration. They can swim and get out approximately where they want to be, in other words they consider the circumstances of the river and create their own movement.