I found this a PK's blog so maybe we'll flush Sam out of his bunker. But it's not like he usually is. He's passing along something he found to be rather cleverly written by a sci-fi writer about a dominant alien culture:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/hive-minds-and-kleptocrats/
Link to "Invaders From Mars":
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html#more
