Pluribus and the Myth of the Benevolent Parasite

Editor’s note: This article includes major spoilers for season one of the series Pluribus. In the science fiction series Pluribus, humanity does not fall to invasion, nuclear war, or artificial intelligence. Instead, it succumbs to something quieter and more unsettling: a virus that rewrites the human mind. The “Joining,” an extraterrestrial infection, transforms nearly all …

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