StoryTime
BabelFish: from science fiction to technological reality.
My father (a programmer, one of the bad guys) was obsessed with this idea. It was his big dream to be the one who figured out how to create a universal translator.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/babelfish.shtml
https://www.babelfish.com/about-us/
The cult replicates itself through each generation through deliberate, systematic child abuse.
The abusers create multiple personalities that can be programmed to obey cult handlers. This is currently known as Dissociative Identity Disorder.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma/201502/ritual-abuse-cults-and-captivity
Survivors are programmed with triggers that can make it very difficult and dangerous to safely extract them from the cult.
Patience is key.
You are watching a movie.
Multi Generational Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrLyllumxts
Stories = Information Technology
Stories shape our mind.
Stories pass information from generation to generation.
>Stories = Information Technology
The old stories are ancient playbooks in this ancient war between good and evil.
Think mirror.
In the Greek myth, Perseus was able to defeat a deadly monster by using a mirror.
Medusa the Gorgon could turn men to stone with her terrifying gaze. Perseus succeeded where many had failed by avoiding direct eye contact and using his shield as a mirror. He watched her in the reflective surface of his shield, protecting himself, and showed her her own reflection, turning her deadliest weapon back on her. Medusa turned herself to stone and Perseus defeated her in battle by beheading her, ending her reign of terror.
The heart of the continent is highly contested territory.
>So Perseus could look at the in the mirror but she couldn't see herself in the mirror?
Incorrect. That's a misread.
Medusa COULD see herself in the mirror, and what she saw destroyed her.
The shock of self-reflection.