• EnsignRedshirt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Yes. There’s so much more to consider than whether or not the plurb is the bad guy. We’re being shown an extreme situation that challenges us to consider what it means to be an individual, not in the sense that individualism is inherently good or bad, but in the sense that if individuality suddenly vanished, that would have some very weird consequences.

    Like, the plurb seems happy, but also it feels like the entire world essentially sharing a single mind could end up being very lonely. If everyone is the same entity then who keeps that entity company? Isn’t that entity now alone on an island in space? And is that not in at least some way very tragic? Or maybe that’s just me projecting, and that I might actually prefer not to have any meaningful distinction from any other person.

    It’s a fun situation to unpack, and you’d have to be very tedious to ignore all of that and just try and figure out who we’re supposed to cheer for. It’s not even that complex or deep, but people are still showing a dismal lack of media literacy overall.