The series Pluribus has made a lot of ways recently.

It's a very powerful production, amazingly written, with a premise that is quite relevant

to the world in which we're living.

And examining its symbolic structure will help us understand some of the problems of the

modern world.

The story begins as a reverse zombie story.

It takes all the tropes of the zombie narrative,

symbolism that I and others have analyzed over the years,

and turns it on its head.

We'll see what that looks like.

We'll see what that looks like. This is Jonathan Pejow a reference to the American motto E. Pluribus Unum, that is from the many one,

especially when the eye in the pluribus logo is replaced by a one.

Like most symbolic structures, the show is not an allegory,

for example, about AI or totalitarianism. It's not a superficial comment about resisting tyranny

or sacrificing oneself for the good of the one. It is an exploration of a deep ontological

problem that is the relationship of the one and the many,

of the inside and the outside, the same and the different.

For that reason, its imagery can be applied as much to the COVID pandemic and its response

as to AI or to the resurgence of the enchanted or post-liberal

world in which questions of participation of how we bind together or how we differ from each

other have all become extremely salient to all of us. The basic premise of the show is that humans receive a communication from

outer space, which turns out to be the code for a virus. This code is interpreted by our human

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