Just got caught up with this show. Everyone on reddit hates Them and all the other individuals and thinks that Carol is absolutely right. This website sides with Them, right? They ended war, crime, poverty, animal abuse, and oppression overnight, and made everyone on Earth extremely happy, compassionate, and superintelligent. Only a rich white American would see this as a downgrade.
91 posts and 13 image replies omitted.>war, crime, poverty, animal abuse, and oppression
The idea that simply joining a hivemind can solve any of those issues is just an absurd individualist strawman, because it asserts it was individual choice that cause those issues and not material conditions.
>Crime
The overwhelming majority of crime is done out of necessity. Unless you fix someone's material conditions, they either steal the food or starve, break into that house or freeze to death, etc… A hivemind would be on par or worse than a local community internet forum.
>Poverty
What economic system does the show demonstrate them employing? If anything it would either create a "we're all the same guy anyway, so throw bodies at it" mentality, or a "I can feel the pain in your back, work harder for no additional compensation or I'll make sure you can't fix it" mentality.
>Animal abuse
Wikipedia doesn't specify if it's a human only virus, only eludes to that by using the term "humanity," which if the virus isn't exclusive to humans would be non-delineating as other animals would be for-all-intents-and-purposes human as part of the hive.
If it works on other animals. see prior point. If not, then the same economic factors present without the virus would still drive the hive to commit abuse against them.
>oppression
see the point prior to the prior point.
>>733752Shes very pleasant. I suppose shes a Palestinian in the series?
>>733758Zioza is from Morroco actually