I need you.
Cool I was just thinking about this yesterday (or maybe this morning technically) but yeah. The idea of all minds joining as one sounds great, floating in a peaceful cosmic soup. Finally being able to see eye to eye.
Until I realized that was the very same goal as the borg. Unite all minds into one perfect creature with no inner conflict, and compleat understanding. No one would ever be lonely again. Heck 7 of 9 who grew up mostly in the collective found “freedom” and “individualism” terrifying. Trying on two occasions to return to the borg.
The idea of everyone joining in paradise of understanding is both equal parts terrifying and exciting.
Whats interesting is once you join the Borg Collective, you gain the knoledge of everyone in the collective. And many of the people the borg assimilated were Against Assimilation. (Often willing to die as opposed to being assimilated.) Meaning that one a person sees eye to eye with all the other borg, sees what they see and knows what they know, they too come to the conclusion that assimilation is good. For if it were true that the Borg Collective was made out of 99% of people who STILL think assimilation is wrong, the collective would collapse. Because 99% of the collective would believe that. Yet for some reason this doesn’t happen. Its only after a drone is Isolated and cut off from the knoledge of the borg that they fight back.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is…
Are the Borg Right?
The goal could be right, but their will is oblitarated by the hivemind, reducing their minds to data and processors, a hivemind is good if the humans who join it are volunteers and they are interfaced gradually so they can’t lose their individuality
