US EditionShould We Be Afraid of Consensus? Pluribus and the Horrors of Mainstream Happiness
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Peace, Joy – Pustekuchen! In the new Apple series "Pluribus" "Breaking Bad" inventor Vince Gilligan designs the vision of a humanity in which everyone is equally happy – and misfortune therefore becomes subversion One knows such scenes from countless zombie films and series: a scientist happens a little misadventure in the laboratory, and within a few hours, days, weeks, the world is another. Traffic comes to a standstill, television stops broad…
Should we be afraid of consensus? Pluribus and the horrors of mainstream happiness
Should we be afraid of consensus? Pluribus and the horrors of mainstream happinessOpinion + AnalysisSociety + CultureBY Joseph Earp 12 NOV 2025 Partway through Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the author neatly summarises one of the more troubling questions that undercuts civilisation: is it ethical for widespread happiness to come at the expense of the discontent of select individuals? Or, to put it simply: do the needs of the many outweig…
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