called from: #B8.
The success of locusts leads to their exponential breeding. As their numbers grow, however, competition for food intensifies and they increasingly press up against one another. When almost no personal space is left, they begin to morph, from peaceful green grasshoppers into ruddy carnivores, cannibals, locked together in a warring sea of limbs and jaws. The weaker ones, in trying to escape, begin the swarm, providing an aerial string of meals to guide the stronger, faster locusts to new pastures.
Although in blooming locusts die in swarms, in their way they have freely chosen to behave as they do. Down generations these choices have proved successful, and now their inability to manage themselves peacefully has evolved into inherited behaviour.
The number of strategies for survival appears to be unlimited. BEINGS make their choices, more or less freely. Ignorance is no defence against their consequences, and there is no reset button.