We are all little ants serving those in power!!

Ian sent me a dvd earlier on this week called 'Waking Life'. It is a series of lectures/dialogues about consciousness, dreams, life, meaning and so on. I will be watching it again before I make a proper judgment on the film but here is a snippet of one of the discussions in the film.
Wiley (the main character) is walking down the steps of a subway entrance, when he accidently bumps into this girl (Tiana).
Tiana: Excuse meWiley: Excuse me. Wiley continues walking down the stairs, but Tania chases him back down.
Tiana: Hey.......could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but, I don't wanna be an ant, ya know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another continuously on "ant" autopilot with nothing really human required of us. "Stop," "Go," "Walk here," "Drive there." All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change," "Paper or plastic?", "Credit or debit?", "Do you want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be an ant. Ya know?Wiley: Yeah...yeah I know. I don't want to be an ant either. Thanks for kinda, like, josteling me there...I've been kinda on zombie autopilot lately. I don't feel like an ant in my head, but I guess I probably look like one.
It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.Tiana: Then it's like we have met! [Tania shakes Wiley's hand]
How often do we just exchange pleasantries with people in our jobs, or people we have bumped into and so on. We never really communicate with these people. It is like we are on auto-pilot and just move on as if it never had happened. Or think of the times when you go into a cafe and you don't notice all the people that are there but only those who are not (ie the people who you are meant to be meeting). The society we live in has grown immensely over a very short period of time. In order to accommodate everyone and keep things running smoothly, we've had to adopt methods of keeping human interaction to a minimum. Real human interaction became extinct because the emergence of our societies called for it. Yes it would be impossible to interact with everyone on a bus or to make eye contact or say hello to everyone in the street as we would never get anything done. This haste to make sure that everything is done on time, this urbanization has turned us into 'ants'. We run arounddoing our work to satisfy the Queen (those whom are in power). Wouldn't it be nice if we could share are experiences and thoughtswith the world and the people in it. Wouldn't it be nice if we could put aside the lust, greed, hate, envy and so on that exists inside us. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where we were not all strangers!!
"We seem to think we're so limited by the world, and the confines....but, we're really just creating them."