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Contagion
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When they touched down on the alien planet Minos, the last thing the crew of the Explorer expected to find was other humans. They'd come through thirty-six light years of space only to find that another group of humans had settled the plant generations before. Still it was a beautiful place...expect for the contagion.
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iamawhitey
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“Terrifying. Liberating. Vivid conscious life of the protagonist. Strange ideas bristling with the tensions between love, selfishness, ego, identity, desire-type shit. I think a horror story for Westerners and a bit duhh/amen for the less egoic. Would love to read her speculations on how people identify after the ending. Does the sense of self grow to the whole group? How does memory remain if everything about everyone is relatively identical? Do we just zoom in on difference enough to have distinctions which lay down foundation for memories? Do they become immortal psychotics? Or blissful paired off pairs of romantic twinsy monks? Pothead says before coughing out smoke, “Is there a difference?”
It sort of references something like the greek myth of each having a primordial perfect half and poses the challenge of “would you join it and lose your selfhood/be subsumed”, and it also reads that myth/concept as a mirror-pairing rather than a scale/balancing-pair which is unique.
Certainly brings up ideas of happiness/fulfillment and relativity. Becoming someone else/having the self subsumed, one no longer exists, and so, no longer delights or suffers as that one. Can anyone be more of something/a quality than another? On one level yes, but on another, all they can be is what they are then, alone and incomparable. But this so close to identical (at least on the outside) so as to be negligible/indistinguishable is quite disturbing. I think this crazy fuckin story circles around all that psychedelic gibberish type shit that I love. Bit heteronormative only drawback. Still way ahead of it’s time.”
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