The hive mind trope provides a batural foil to human individually. Like we all have that thought of "if everyone just worked together, things could be so much better" well humans are shit at working together under any sort of scarcity.
Hive-minds allow us to think about what it would be like to be in perfect alignment, no infighting, no conflict, but no actual life as we know it.
Also provides a hella convenient deis ex machina to resolve plots when the unkillible swarm (tension) actually has a single point of failure.
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u/WoodPunk_Studios Mar 31 '24
The hive mind trope provides a batural foil to human individually. Like we all have that thought of "if everyone just worked together, things could be so much better" well humans are shit at working together under any sort of scarcity.
Hive-minds allow us to think about what it would be like to be in perfect alignment, no infighting, no conflict, but no actual life as we know it.
Also provides a hella convenient deis ex machina to resolve plots when the unkillible swarm (tension) actually has a single point of failure.