Friday, August 11, 2006

POST 04 – THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE – PENELOPE’S STORY

The Valenzetti clock has been ticking down for 40 years, they tell us. It supposedly pinpoints the end of everything for everyone. But what if it’s a lie? What if there is no Valenzetti, no equation, and the end of the world is simply a business strategy concocted over the years by a small group of exceedingly rich and powerful individuals who believe they’ll be able to build a “better tomorrow” by starting with a clean slate.

So, while this well-orchestrated apocalypse progresses, an influential business group builds an escape hatch. Let’s say it’s an island ark that may reside out of time, in another dimension, on another planet, or protected by a natural or artificial force field. At any rate, it’s invisible to the naked eye.

Love, however, honors no such barriers, and so as lonely Penelope seeks to find her lost mate, she decides her only hope is to force the cabal into a panic and reveal the location of where their ark has been concealed.

She accomplishes this by using her vast wealth to create a complex fiction that suggests she knows all and is about to reveal everything to the worldwide television viewing audience. It’s a simple show called Lost.

She employs skilled researchers to seek out the best information on what the cabal might have planned, but there is so much to learn and time is running out. She decides to go a step further. She formulates a plan and through The Lost Experience she leaks an astonishing portfolio of “secret” documents and crumpled letters, anagrams, glyphs, and other sundry and assorted “research,” but most of the maps are unreadable, the images inscrutable, and provide only dribs and drabs of information. The story suggests that these are clues to help the game players figure things out, while in fact she is enlisting their collective brainpower to act as a hydra-headed intellectual search-engine in her quest.

She provides hundreds of clues: What do the hieroglyphs mean? Where is Enzo Valenzetti? And what is his equation? What do the numbers mean? What’s a Helgus Antonius? SUMO? Apollo candy bars? DHARMA Initiative? Nanites? Where is Alvar Hanso?

She offers no answers; only more questions.

She (or more likely a dedicated group of freedom fighter types) throws the questions out and we come up with multiple theories that eventually, due to the sheer avalanche of data, begin to form a coherent story. Ten-Thousand-Monkeys-R-Us.

For instance, it turns out that Apollo is much more than a candy bar. We quickly learn that in Greek myth, he was a twin, born as much as a day after his sibling, a girl, Artemis, who helped their mother find a newly created floating island on which to give birth. Turns out the island, Delos, which was neither mainland nor a real island, was surrounded by swans. Afterwards, Apollo’s dad Zeus secured the island to the bottom of the ocean and it later became a sacred place, a cult center and the meeting place of the Delian League, an organization of member states who each had a vote and who each provided to the common wealth one asset—ships, troops weapons, cash.

Since all that symbolism—swans, mysterious islands and twins—plays a continuing role in the unfolding story, perhaps the evil cabal is modeled after the Delian League who have created a new world Delos for themselves. Perhaps they are experimenting with psychotropic drugs like the ones that cause St. Anthony’s Fire to carry out their world-destroying coup. Beginning to sound familiar to anyone?So far so good, Penelope. We all fall for a good love story. Over the past few weeks, a grainy picture of the master plan is beginning to form, and you’ve attracted a following of true believers. Let’s just hope you’re who we think you are—the good guys, not the bad--and that all our efforts are going to stop and not speed the countdown to our own end. In the end, we all want to trust that our own Experience for your cause has been for an admirable reason.

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