Elon is one of the biggest sacks of shit on the face of the planet, but he wasn’t wrong when he said people have become cyborgs. Everyone voluntarily plugged into a hivemind that exists to sell us shit we don’t need and manipulate our emotions to keep us engaged.
We voluntarily became the Borg. We hard wired ourselves into an ever-present stream of voices that kills critical thinking and independent thought. And now we’re living in the world created by a river of ignorance everyone drowns in.
Borg queen kinda killed the Borg idea, didn’t it? It was much more sublime when it was a completely alien hivemind that is more like a force of nature. But the show runners were just too stupid to grapple with that idea, apparently, and needed a singular melodramatic villain
It’s like the writers couldn’t understand that the Borg was a collective consciousness. They seemed to think there needed to be one voice above the cacophony of many… Instead of realizing the collective would have its own overriding imperatives that squash down the anarchy of the many into the will of the collective.
Exactly. Tyranny of the majority would absolutely drown out the individualism. And was definitely the case as demonstrated by Hugh’s storyline. Once separated from the collective, individualism returned. If anything, that would have made a much stronger narrative motivation for the federation: these are people, individuals that need to be extracted from the mass of madness; not destroyed. Would have also made better western propaganda if viewed from the lens of liberal democracy vs. communism. Sending Hugh back into that hell definitely would have killed the individual that came to be without hope that his experiences would make any impact. It isn’t like the Borg were unaccustomed to absorbing individualism because, uh, yeah, they literally did that all the time when assimilating new people. Fuckin’ Piller definitely wasn’t big brained enough to think all of this through, obviously.
Elon is one of the biggest sacks of shit on the face of the planet, but he wasn’t wrong when he said people have become cyborgs. Everyone voluntarily plugged into a hivemind that exists to sell us shit we don’t need and manipulate our emotions to keep us engaged.
We voluntarily became the Borg. We hard wired ourselves into an ever-present stream of voices that kills critical thinking and independent thought. And now we’re living in the world created by a river of ignorance everyone drowns in.
There are other people that have made the cyborg point than Elon. It’s a relatively common sentiment
I want to go back to being TNG Borg who were all equal and didn’t have a queen
Borg queen kinda killed the Borg idea, didn’t it? It was much more sublime when it was a completely alien hivemind that is more like a force of nature. But the show runners were just too stupid to grapple with that idea, apparently, and needed a singular melodramatic villain
I like the conspiracy theory that the Borg just fake having a queen to scare primitive civilisations
It’s like the writers couldn’t understand that the Borg was a collective consciousness. They seemed to think there needed to be one voice above the cacophony of many… Instead of realizing the collective would have its own overriding imperatives that squash down the anarchy of the many into the will of the collective.
Exactly. Tyranny of the majority would absolutely drown out the individualism. And was definitely the case as demonstrated by Hugh’s storyline. Once separated from the collective, individualism returned. If anything, that would have made a much stronger narrative motivation for the federation: these are people, individuals that need to be extracted from the mass of madness; not destroyed. Would have also made better western propaganda if viewed from the lens of liberal democracy vs. communism. Sending Hugh back into that hell definitely would have killed the individual that came to be without hope that his experiences would make any impact. It isn’t like the Borg were unaccustomed to absorbing individualism because, uh, yeah, they literally did that all the time when assimilating new people. Fuckin’ Piller definitely wasn’t big brained enough to think all of this through, obviously.