S2. Chapter 11: Pluribus. We Is Us.

In Chapter Eleven of The Tao of Lloyd, we step into the strange glow of Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s hive-mind drama where humanity upgrades into cosmic teamwork whether we want it or not.

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From alien RNA to America’s real-time ideological hive mind, Lloyd unpacks the tension between individuality and interdependence, between the “We Is Us” of a sci-fi contagion and the Taoist reminder that the useful part is the empty center.

This episode blends:
• Pluribus analysis (no spoilers)
• Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11
• RFK Jr. levels of cosmic nonsense
• A guided meditation on being “the hole,” not the spoke

Close your eyes (or don’t), breathe deeply, and join Lloyd for chapter 11 of the Tao of Lloyd. 

Inspired by Chapter 11 of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (in the English translation by Stephen Mitchell):

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.