The emblem of the society
The Siphonophore
A siphonophore looks like a single creature and is not one. It is a colony — dozens of separate organisms, each grown for one task, living so closely joined that together they swim, hunt, and feed as one body. No single part is the animal; the animal is the cooperation.
It is the truest picture we have of what a society is. Many minds, each formed by its own work, bound loosely enough to stay themselves and tightly enough to move together. The Portuguese man o’ war is not an individual with organs. It is individuals being an organism — which is the only way a scattered field becomes a living thing.
That is what Meristem is for: to let the separate ones discover they were a body all along.
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