The idea that hive minds in sci-fi have queens or some other central apparatus like a mother ship makes no sense at all. That completely defeats the purpose of a hive mind, which is decentralization.
It speaks to kind of society we live in where it’s generally assumed that unity is achieved through domination only.
The way we talk about bees and ants suffers from this too. The queen in an ant colony or beehive plays an important role but doesn’t do Any actual leadership. All the coordination bees and ants do is completely decentralized. I’ve always thought it was funny how much people project our society onto nature.
halloween is weird for australians because you’ll see two solid months of americans screaming in rapture about about their national skeleton holiday and then come 6pm on the 31st you’ll get a knock on the door from a kid
who’s watched too many cartoons
with a minecraft sword from k-mart and his apologetic dad in tow and you’ll scrounge up like half a roll of butter menthols and a wagon wheel to hand over and that’s the affair sorted for another year
