watched episode 2 of pluribus and im scared of the people in the pluribus tag who are saying they would "love to join the hivemind" and the reasoning im hearing the most is "well carol is an american individualist talking down to people of different cultures, shes wong and she's cringe. i would just live happily and comfortably just like the rest of them are!"
yeah shes an american individualist dickhead. shes been shaped by the god damn culture she lives in. but she is right to point out that this is strange and disturbing. those sexy women that Koumba called aboard his flight all have the memory of giving birth to him. every man, woman, and child on planet earth apart from a dozen people have lost themselves, their hopes and dreams and whatever they planned to do with their lives. a few days ago, a woman, Zosia, was in her home country and now she is carol's chaperone because the whole of humanity thought that she would like her.
the world is at your beck and call. they are all your father, your mother, your children, strangers. babies in maternity wards are part of a hivemind, they will never grow into people of their own, they will be raised with a terrifying blend of all of humanity's memory and tragedy, born with every experience already completed. people move in a single unit to remove bodies from streets, never speaking to one another because they all know, because they are connected by psychic glue. your fury kills them.
constantly observed, never made to struggle by other members of humanity, known infinitely and intimately and never really knowing a WHOLE other person. you live alone, apart from a handful of other people who don't care, while everyone else has joined an amalgamation whose existence depends upon pleasing you.
it isn't only wrong and unfair to the unafflicted -- it is unfair to the hivemind. they are nonviolent. they don't even kill animals to eat, not bugs, nothing. but your emotions wipe out millions, unknowingly, both in front of you and in corners of the world you will never touch. they don't deserve that. their unity has made them susceptible to your whims. if you felt like, you could shout and scream and stomp your feet until the human race goes extinct. you could even do it by accident if you're not careful!
you must stay pleased and complacent, stay satisfied, or you can join them. add yourself to the slurry, be even happier than you can ever imagine, know everything and want for nothing, merge with your enemies and friends alike.
and then, you, too, will be happy and contented to serve the remaining, unaffected ones!
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