“Do you know how ant culture works? Alright, so an ant finds food and then just farts pheromones.
And almost all the other ants are like, ‘Ooh, that’s food!’ And they go and they follow exactly where that ant is.
They get the food and they get in a line and they go and they go and they go and they eat the food and it’s unsustainable because the food will run out and they die.
So what ants have are a series of random ants.
And the rando ants, they don’t follow the smell. They just go around.
And those are the ones you see in your kitchen that you kill. Those are the ones that get stepped on. Those are the ones that are just all over the place.
Why is that single ant there?
Those are the artists in our culture.
We are the random ants.”
Mo Willems on the necessity of art via Austin Kleon’s newsletter