Pluribus: when harmony frightens us and happiness feels unsettling
Created by Vince Gilligan, the series builds a world transformed by something that closely resembles the idea of a unified collective consciousness. Suddenly, a large part of humanity undergoes a kind of “activation,” described in the narrative as an epidemic or neurological transformation, and the world changes radically. People appear calmer, more cooperative, more connected, as if the filter of the egoic mind had fallen away and everyone began accessing the same field of i
