Pluribus: The Blob Vs. the One
The Beast with Many I’s, Part 5
(Audio at the end)
What are the qualities of the hive-mind, and what might we do personally, if we found ourselves in Carol and Manousos’ situation?
The hive-mind claims not to lie. Is it true? They offer to give non-joined humans whatever they ask. Is it true? There are things Carol might have asked for (besides an atom bomb) that would prevent her being turned against her will, but apparently she didn’t think to ask (she could have asked for all the gains the Others have made by working on to try to “turn” her).
The hive-mind claims to want everyone to be happy. Is this true? They are so sensitive to negative emotions that they die when exposed to them. Physical proximity isn’t the determining factor, however, because Zosia doesn’t die, while 8 million do, even though Carol’s anger and distress is directed at Zosia, who is right in front of her.
They claim to need human beings’ consent in order to turn them. Is this true?
What is their actual goal?
A Covid Parable with Plausible Deniability
The parallels in Pluribus with the covid years are many, and mostly obvious, though again, how obvious would depend on which side of the divide you are watching from. Perhaps there is a correlation between those who took the mRNA jab—and did not regret it—and those who see the Joining as not necessarily such a bad thing?
The most obvious covid commentary relates to how groupthink and “joining together” is for the good of all, and yet involves an oppressive, totalitarian denial of any possibility of individual choice. Basically, if you don’t go along with the herd, you are the enemy. You are a carrier of something destructive, you are on the side of death. Everyone good, on the other hand, is jabbed and masked and faceless.
What was literally true in the covid years, is figuratively true in Pluribus.
Nobody among the Joined is being honest or sincere. Even if they can’t lie, neither can they be authentically themselves (which means they can only ever lie). At the very least, they continuously choose not to be authentic, whenever they are trying to communicate with non-joined humans.
Instead, they perform an imitation of what they think human behavior looks like, based on the memories they have stolen, on the consciousness they have harvested. They’re trying to please, charm, and seduce the surviving humans by giving a performance of human kindness (pun intended).
This becomes most explicit in the last-but-one episode, in which a Peruvian woman volunteers to be turned. The Others are conducting a seemingly caring ceremony for the woman. As soon as she turns, all the outer motions cease abruptly and they return to being a zombie herd.
The Others claim (whether or not we’re supposed to believe it) that they are all completely together—one—at an inner level, so they don’t need any of the externals of connectivity or caring. They only walk around like soulless automatons because they are connected at the deepest levels, and don’t rely on any kind of surface connecting.
How Propaganda Works
In the covid years, social responsibility trumped individual freedom of choice by rebranding it as “self-interest.”
Any kind of individuality that threatened the consensus was seen as destructive, harmful, and selfish. The collective group mind chanted “Follow the science,” “Trust the authorities.” It asserted alignment with a manufactured consensus that passed for individual consent.
This supposedly selfless collectivism was serving the interests of small control groups, however, and not the whole. It was geared towards controlling populations by “care-trolling” them, by promoting the idea of social responsibility, and of the good of all, via a seemingly self-evident idea that what serves the collective is more important than what only serves the individual.
What the majority believes thereby becomes “right” (morally, if not ontologically), precisely because the majority believes it. Collective values are the only right ones.
If more people believe something, this becomes the value that is to be respected, simply because more people believe it. If you can make enough people believe something, and then combine this with the collective belief in the rightness of collectivity, whatever becomes the consensus, becomes truth.
The fact is that it is easy to make a lot of people believe the same thing by this method, that is, by first making them believe that everyone else believes it, or at least the vast majority. If we are going to be responsible, and if we want to belong, to be part of humanity, we will eventually choose to believe it too.
This is how propaganda works: by playing on our sense of loneliness and alienation, and by offering a counterfeit means to feel like we are not alone, like we are part of something; just so long as we believe the things that the State tells us to believe (which is what everyone else believes).
We then mistake becoming part of the State for being part of a human community.