Thinking back to last week when I saw a short video posted about Aether. The main point was that in the early 1900s Aether was removed from the periodic table because the government didn’t want you to know about it. Just like weed curing cancer and other stuff that they don’t want you to know about because it ruins your fun and they’re evil. Back then, we can assume this was not as yet undiscovered atomic number at the higher end of the table. But somehow tucked away in the middle of the table between two existing elements. Which of course doesn’t actually work since elements are defined by the number of protons. So Aether being between say, Fluorine and Neon at 9 1/2 protons gets its magic properties from having the impossible 1/2 of a subatomic particle.
In entertainment fictional elements abound. And since gematria is in a phase of throwing weird stuff around as marketing ploys someone should try something different. Who knows when the next Aether will be popular. Most of the fictional elements aren’t explained in the depth of a scientific analysis. They’re just there. They are usually a metal with a cool sounding name. And they usually are made for stabby fantasy things like swords or sci fi starship hulls and space armor. Most importantly, like fictional and impossible mid table Aether, they’re just there. And that means you can make up what they do to your hearts content.
Gematria cult leaders love making stuff up. Otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it every day. The go to make stuff up thing seems to have fizzled out. The new cipher. The newest that I’m aware of, the composite number cipher, doesn’t have much traction. Only the creator seems to be making any content for it.
What I’m about to suggest, don’t go crazy on it. You’re not going to create a new entire language like Tolkien painstakingly making Elvish. Take a cue from making up an element in the middle of the periodic table.
Make up a new but ancient lost letter. Somewhere between F and G would be nice. That one magic letter that suddenly will make decodes make sense without fudging the results. Make a new symbol to represent it. Promote the search for it retroactively to your unleashing its discovery. The painful trials and death traps that you as the modern Indiana Jones had to suffer through to find it. It’s not about the loved ones lost along the way or the being targeted by the dark society entrusted to keep it secret, it’s the journey along the way that’s important.
And what you’re doing is writing a real book. Not another recap of personal anecdotes and synchronicity of the overused couple of stories that make a bit more sense. We are kind of bored with the 9/11 numerology. Give is a new letter to fall in love with. A love letter. Give us Furiosa instead of Mad Max. We love Max, but isn’t it time for a change? A real change?
And maybe, just maybe, someone will be inspired. Someone will actually learn to do real research and one day <GASP> find an actual new letter. And those decodes actually decipher things instead of just throwing things around hit and miss all willy nilly.
The dangerous trek is not filled with pits containing snakes or poisoned spears. It’s learning critical thinking skills. It’s learning the way science works, building on what happened before, instead of just making up something that has magic properties to bail you out when the orcs attack. It’s learning that something truly awe inspiring and potentially useful like an actual missing letter would be takes work and not just a Google search to find out what you want to hear. It requires actually being right about something instead of forcing the narrative to match what you want it to be.
In the meantime. Enjoy being right after the fact.
No comments:
Post a Comment