GALAXY - What was that all about?

 Let’s start with the story.

BEFORE: Verum is a terrible person that ruins his life to such an extent that the only way out he can see is to kill himself.

AFTER: This is the death moment. As it is without a sense of time it is in the present tense. And the fragments of narrative represent how dreams operate. For his soul to be allowed to pass on he must repent his sins, specifically the one’s against women. For this to happen, he must be subjected to what he did. But it’s all symbolic. The names that return in the After are the manifestation of the negative aspects of Verum’s life and thoughts.

For example: Innocence returns as a drug because he was addicted to her. Aurora, his ship, returns as a destructive influence that reacts to his own behaviour, i.e. her own bad behaviour is because of him, just like a weapon on the wrong hands.

In the After, Spark is the manifestation of who Verum dreams himself to be, the top gun of space. But as Shyla points out, Verum isn’t the spark his uncle hoped for.

But what’s it really about? It’s about equality. From the women’s rights movement rise of feminism in the 1960s/70s, gender equality was slowly rising. I think it peaked around the mid-90s. Why? Because then we got the internet. This led to a counter rise of toxicity in most parts of life, but mainly in masculinity. The gains that were made in equality were relentlessly destroyed by the influence of online toxic masculinity, and the rise of the ugly alpha male. This culminated in 2016, with the sudden proliferation of authoritarian leaders around the world.

Some other things to think about:

The oil egg?: a giant space vagina. But calling it that seemed a little too obvious.

The coin: it represents consequence. Letting the coin full is letting someone else decide fate, so Verum either can get out of accepting responsibility. With Spark catching the coin, he decides his own future, acknowledging his crimes, and accepts the punishment.

Names: Charon who is the ferryman who takes souls across the River Styx. Minos who was one of the guardians of the gates of hell in Dante’s Inferno. Bewailer, of course, regret. Verum, truth.