We are borg, Resistance is of no Significance
Imagine we have succeeded in avoiding WW3 and a Massive Planetary Population Reduction, what next?
The aim of reducing our population was there in order to make us easier to control as a species. With larger numbers comes a larger group of possible dissenters to silence. But is that the only way they could have succeeded by reducing our population to 500 million? If they failed in this would they give up trying to subjugate humanity or would they try to control us using another method?
Lets say A borg-like race is real. Could we expect them to make themselves known to us for what they are or would they instead seek to present themselves as a positive race here for humanities benefit? The star trek borg were Conquerers that much is true but they could also be incredibly deceptive. If they had to be invited here before they conquered us it makes sense that they wouldn't be up-front about the nature of their collective as we would become wise to their ruse from the get-go, so it is far more likely that they would attempt to deceive us.
The idea behind sharing thoughts and becoming "one-mind" has always repulsed me since I first watched Star Trek TNG and was introduced to the borg. No diversity among collective consciousness, how could there be? You are "one-mind" synthetically linked so that all fall under the umbrella of "BORG" or whatever..Sure it makes them highly efficient at performing tasks as they have instant access to all their collective knowledge, but what about learning? Learning and thinking are fun. I don't want to live in a world where all information has to be centralized and available as a shared thought as that would take away the joy of coming to my own understandings of things through my own inner effort and not because it was simply "given" to me.
I have made this thread so that people may begin to think long and hard about just what sort of society and person you want to be, because I believe you have a choice.
Are you someone who keeps asking questions regardless of character assasinations? Or will you succumb to fear and accept that which you do not agree with as you "don't want to be left out"?
These are interesting times and I for one have never been in the position of having to defend question askers everywhere from being labelled stalker, crazy, mind controlled, socially engineered, victim of black magick, or highly trained clever dis-info operative.
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."voltaire