TBS (the Borg) and the Alien of Plur1bus want Submission
First off, if you have ever studied Behavioural Economics, you are likely of the mind that what people choose to do can tip towards the irrational, people are not easy to understand. You can get philosophical and suggest we have no free will so everything should be predictable, but you know it is not. Rationally or not, I sat and watched Plur1bus. It is a tv series where aliens have taken over the brains of all people except a dozen or so and in so doing they have basically turned them into service units connected by one mind. Those few exempted ones have some special genetic properties that must first be extracted from them, manipulated and reintroduced physically to convert them into subjects of the central alien mind. In the first episodes we see a mass extinction which ensues when one of the exempted ones gets angry at one of the alien-controlled ones. Thousands die but there is no express reason for how or why they die. Their death seems to be a reckoning for the indiscret...