You Will Be Assimilated - Resistance is Futile

By Wayne Brown

When I think of dragons and the way they assimilate people, the Borg is never far from my mind.


The Borg, named the fourth nastiest villain of all time by TV Guide in 2013, brought the idea of assimilation to movie audiences,

Borg absorb all sentient beings, along with all of those being's knowledge and abilities but (of course) leaving any ethical considerations behind. The goal of the Borg is simply to expand, grow and assimilate ...
to "add the biological and technological distinctiveness of other species to [their] own... [in pursuit of] perfection". The concept of perfection is the unifying idea at the core of the Borg Collective. The pursuit of an unemotional, mechanical perfection is the Borg's only motivation. This is achieved through forced assimilation, a process of 'conversion' in which technology and life-forms are adapted for the Collective's use. - From Wikipedia
Such "perfection" involves the destruction of all that is unique and worthwhile in us as individuals, sacrificed to an alien idea of perfection. Whatever "perfection" humans were seeking is simply swept aside. Resistance is futile.

To me, the Borg are a perfect metaphor for the way all our hopes, fears and plans, along with life itself, are swept aside in the march to war -- usually to simply further the existence of the State we were unlucky to be born in. The State has no legitimate purpose beyond the protection of the welfare of its citizens, yet Nations act in a seemingly brainless contradiction to this goal. Like the Borg, Nation States act as an "unemotional ... autonomous collective" with as much moral sense as a hungry alligator.

Or dragon ...

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