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EXO Theory Pt. 14 - Let Me In

Hello, it’s been a while. Not sure if anyone will read this, but I am in the mood to write down some more EXO theory so… here we are.

To Let Me In - I love this song. It’s so wonderful, and I am eagerly anticipating the full album and the next two MVs - hopefully they will also be chockful of lore because that’s what makes EXO MVs so fun.

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The main theme of this MV seems to be time reversal. At the beginning of the MV we watch a boy throw a stone into the water, somehow setting off a chain of events that become the music video.

By the end though we are watching the stone fly back up out of the lake and everything in the music video become undone.

This idea of a time loop, or an erasure of time in a singular event is not new to EXO. Back in the days of Pathcode teasers, we were told Beginning=End, then in Tempo promotions it became End=Beginning.

If we take the beginning literally to mean the beginning of the story, and the beginning of EXO, we have to look at MAMA, and there is a significant line in the opening narration:

“To tend and embrace the Heart of the Tree of Life, the legends hereby divide the Tree in half and hide each side, hence time is overturned and space turns askew.”

Since the beginning time has been overturned and non-linear. This has been reflected time and time again in the MVs. A theory I’ve long since held is that the members could somewhat control this disturbance to time and space through their powers - ultimately you had two members at the beginning who could control time (Tao) and space (Kai). Since Tao is no longer in the group and his power is gone, the members have much less control of time and so that is why in Miracles in December when Tao is present, he can make time go backwards himself and he can determine the outcome to keep the members safe but now there is nobody to control it and so the members are almost bystanders to its effects.

If you’ve read other parts of my theory you would know that I had suggested that Kai’s power had been somewhat sacrificed early on in the timeline so that the Guardians could keep the Heart safe - if that’s true then the EXO members now have little control over space either, or at least a drastically decreased control, which is why we are now seeing space become disturbed in the new MV.

I personally think that this entire era, but specifically Let Me In is the time that was described at the beginning of Power, when the narrator says:

“The universe has transformed. Distorted space has been reassambled. Warped time has been reset and the unpurified Red Force imbrued two suns with darkness.”

That seems to be talking about the events of Let Me In. Especially if you consider Let Me In to be directly after Don’t Fight the Feeling and/or Obsession where we see meteors fall and planets set alight. We watch in real time as time resets itself and space reassembles. I’m cautiously predicting we will see more of this, and perhaps the two imbrued suns, in the following MVs for this comeback. I hope so.

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From Marilee Talkington’s post:

So, after thinking about this over night, I’ve decided to share something that happened at the WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL yesterday afternoon in NYC that changed me. Or rather made me step into who I am in a larger way.

As some on my feed have seen, I was live-feeding the beginning of the panel discussion on FB. That panel was made up of some of the greatest and most famous minds in the world in Inflationary Cosmology, String Theory, Cosmology and Physics based Philosophy. The panel was made up of 5 men and 1 woman. And the moderator was a science writer and journalist for The New Yorker.

In the first hour of the panel discussion you can see clearly, if watching the video, that Veronika Hubeny, the only woman on the panel is barely given any opportunity to speak. And the Moderator, Jim Holt even acknowledges this.

In the last 20-30 minutes of the 90 minute discussion Jim Holt finally pushes the conversation to Hubeny’s field of expertise, string theory, and this is what ensued:

He asked her to describe her two theories of string theory that seem to contradict one another.

And THEN, without letting her answer, proceeded to answer for her and describe HER theories in detail without letting her speak for herself.

We could clearly see that she was trying to speak up. But he continued to talk over her and dominate the space for several minutes.

I should say that this panel was taking place in a large auditorium as it is an extremely high-profile and always sold-out event. And the panel discussion was being live-streamed across the world and they say that millions of people watch these videos after they are made public. (Which they already are).

So at this point, after seeing very clearly that she was not going to be given space to speak and in fact having her own theories described to the audience by the moderator, I am in full outrage. My body is actually beginning to shake. The sexism is beyond blatant. It is happening on stage and NO ONE, not a single other physicist or panelist is stepping in to say anything about it. And I can hear other audience members around me, both men and women becoming more and more agitated with what is happening. Jim Holt, even at one point, asks Veronica a question and she laughs because he has been answering his own questions about her work…and he makes fun of her for ‘giggling’.

So at some point while he is Still talking about Her theories, I just can’t handle it any longer.

With my hands shaking,

I finally say from my seat in the 2nd row of the audience, as clearly, directly and loudly as possible;

“Let. Her. Speak. Please!”

The moderator stops.

They all stop.

The auditorium drops into silence.

You could hear a pin drop.

And then the audience explodes with applause and screams.

Jim Holt eventually sat back, only after saying I was heckling him And he let her speak. And of course, she was brilliant.

———————–

So, the panel discussion ends.

My hands are still shaking. I’m still upset by the incredible sexism that has been demonstrated this afternoon. But I also realize that I just spoke up in an auditorium full of people that are listening to people that are considered gods in the international science world. I was just overwhelmed by it all

We get up to leave.

And then it happens.

Person after person come up to me. Both men and women.

The first woman, right behind me, reaches over and embraces me and says, “Oh my god. what you said was the most important thing that was said all day. Thank you. Thank you.”

And then people start filing out of their aisles and wind their way over to me:

“Was that you? Thank you so much for speaking up. Thank you.”

“Was that you? Oh god, what he was doing was horrific. Thank you. I wanted to do something but didn’t know how”

“Was that you? I wish I had the courage to say something, thank you! Thank you so much”

“Was that you? You said what everyone here was thinking. Look I had even been writing in my notebook what you eventually said (shows me his notebook with ‘let her speak’ written over and over.) But you said it. You said it. Thank you.”

“Was that you? Thank you! I felt so powerless to do anything.”

And on.

So we were all thinking this.

—- So I walked out. And my friend who was sitting about 8 rows behind me, came up to me with a huge grin and said “That was you, wasn’t it? Of course it was. YES!!!!! I will be telling this story for years.”

And the whole time, my hands are still shaking. And I’m felling light-headed. And I just want to scream out into the lobby “WHY IS THIS SEXISM STILL HAPPENING? WHY, does someone like me, with No status in that room, have to be so extraordinarily bold and speak up? And why was it so frightening to do so?”

And I’m thinking. “God, please god let this be an opening for those that were here today and the tens of thousands that watched the live-streaming of the panel yesterday and the hundreds of thousands that will watch the video this year- to speak up when we see this happening. And please let me not be afraid to do this again …and again …and again” Because it was scary.

Please keep giving me courage.