Political metaphor? our generation's verison of animal farm?
Animal Farm is the classic George Orwell book where disguised as a children's story animals fulfill a symbolic political role.
Well I have been learning a lot about the occupation movement, the "WE ARE THE NINETY NINE PERCENT" rant, which is flawed because it implies that one in a hundred people are rich while most of us are struggling, the "rich" are actually 2 thirds of one percent or about one in one hundred and fifty people.
That scene where the evil leader of the grasshoppers showed how one seed was harmless but if he dumped a hundred seeds it would crush one of them he did to make an important point, he said that they outnumber them a hundred to one and as soon as they figure it out the grasshoppers will lose all of their advantage.
To me that is a total allegory to the occupation movement because the poor and middle class so outnumber the wealthy, out of 150 typical people you have 149 that are poor and middle class and one that is wealthy.
That scene would have had even more significance now with the occupation movement going on, though it was probably true then too.