I am currently watching Plur1bus (Pluribus), the post-apocalyptic web series created by legend Vince Gilligan. This is currently streaming on AppleTV+, with new episodes coming along the way. This show fits very well on “my kind of list”, and so far I’m loving it. The portrayal of the end of the intellectual world (idk how to describe it any better) and Rhea Seehorn’s reaction to all that is happening feels so real. I think that IF anything like this happens today, I’d have a very similar reaction to what her character deals with (maybe coz i'm biased). The insatiable need for human connection is deliberately tossed at the rear seat.
I don’t want to spoil too much to you guys, so I’m not going to talk about the plot. Instead I have a theory that explains no-sycophancy behaviour when a mind-virus is harmed. I don’t know whether it’s true that the mind-virus cannot lie. In that state, the collective would instinctively push back against any outsider trying to slip in or take control, because any threat to one is a threat to the whole.
Whether it runs on pure consensus or some queen-like overseer, the thing would act like a single organism defending its own identity, releasing some kind of pheromones as a defensive mechanism. Drugs work on it the same way as they do on non-infected beings, catching it off guard and making it vunerable.
