#group mind

Domestication? Affini? Chemistry, biorhythms, haustoric implants "brain worms", mind control?

Oh, our sweet summer children...

Let us tell you what real mind control is, charming "free terrans", naive affini, xenos and other beings, intelligent and not so intelligent.

In the collective mind of Daxarga, the integration is so deep and comprehensive that it is completely impossible to determine where the individual's psyche is an individual, where there is agreement with the collective mind, and where the individual is just an avatar.

Even your smallest movements of the soul, actions and thoughts like "nonsense!" or vice versa - "wow!", and everything you think and do may not be yours. Or it may be yours. Or something in between.

Do you think that you are not connected to Daxarga? Are you sure that it is you who thinks this? And is your certainty (or uncertainty) yours?

Be glad that the principle of encouraging independence prevails in Daxarga. Probably. Or not. Or do not be glad, the will is (possibly) yours.

Have you even seen humans stomping their feet while chanting the same thing all at once? It’s sometimes hard to believe they’re not a hive mind https://youtu.be/PmILOL55xP0 -- Anon Guest

[AN: Video linked contains swearwords and is a war scene]

They said the Human colonists were sessile. They were weak and vulnerable. Look at them, not a single weapon in their entire set of settlements. They were fat and lazy. Allegedly. I learned, just as many of my unit did, that our leaders lied to us.

There is no such thing as an unarmed Human.

They took up tools for construction, random heavy objects, and blades for preparing food, and turned them against us. They organised in less than minutes. We thought their scattering was submission. They were only retreating to regroup.

We followed them to an open field they had marked for one of their games. Upright sticks marked opposite ends and some Humans had gathered at one side. They all turned towards us as one being.

There's never a shortage of criticism on the mindstate of the western world and its emphasis on the individual, not all of which is unreasonable. Although the older I get, the more frightened I become with the tyranny of the group mind(s).

"Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. The fanatics of various hues eye each other with suspicion and are ready to fly at each other’s throats. But they are neighbors and almost of one family." “The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”

Draw A Picture 1 Line At A Time (Following, Group Mind)