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The Da Vinci Code Agenda
The ending of The Da Vinci Code has always really confused me. I’m not one to give “spoiler alerts” but at the end of it, they basically reveal the chick is the descendent of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. But like, it’s not a big deal. Which is crazy, really - because I know if I suddenly found out my family was part of an ancient bloodline stretching back to a mythological savior, I would be absolutely shitting my pants. Or at least that’s what I imagine.
I’m curious to see how they’re going to handle this moment in the movie version. I imagine we’ll the luscious Audrey Tautou standing on a green Scottish hillside with soft sunlight streaming into a halo behind her, with Tom Hanks’ Richard Langdon doing semi- or full-on genuflecting in front of her like a grail knight. In fact, I’d bet money on it. And they’ll enhance the whole thing with CGI, a la Lord of the Rings to boot.
Anyway, in the comments to a previous post, the discussion arose as to not only why the Da Vinci Code is so popular, but just why it’s being pushed so goddamned much. I guess we have to try and sort out how much of the popularity is actual popularity, and how much is engineered - or if there’s even a difference anymore. Anyway, Carlos left a rather interesting piece of speculation in one of those comments:
what i wonder about though is why it is been pushed so hard. that bloodline shit is fucking dangerous taken literally.
on oprah today: jesus’ great great great… grandson is on the show. he’ll be announcing his plans for total world domination. aren’t y’all gonna love it? can i get a whoop whoop?
Also calls to mind the work of people like Nicholas De Vere and Laurence Gardner, doing all that stuff about the Dragon Court, and the Grail Kings, and the Vampires/Elven/Scythian line. Is this all just part of the cultural zeitgeist or is something much more insidious being played out right in front of us? Combine all that with a bunch of hullaballoo where people are interpreting the whole Book of Revelation/Second Coming thing in an extremely literalist light, and you have all the ingredients for a great big New World Order party. Maybe the conspiracy theorists are onto something…
October 21st, 2005 at 8:44 am
One of the things I’ve always found weird about the whole idea of little Jesus grandkids among us is how long it’d have been since JC walked the earth. As long as there’s no inbreeding involved, there’s not a lot of “you” left in your great-great-grandchildren. That’s likely less than a hundred years time, especially back in the day. Move two thousand years forward, and nobody’s going to be commenting “you’ve got his chin!”
PS: Whoop whoop
October 21st, 2005 at 4:39 pm
yes, it’s all a part of the merovingian master plan, mwahahaha…
October 21st, 2005 at 9:06 pm
oh there’ll be inbreeding alright. the problem is i’ve seen nothing that convinces me a historical jesus ever existed. so they’ll be the inbred descendants of whom? some crackpot royal family? for the life of me i can’t imagine why anyone would even care. oh yes i can, it’s a pretty cool story. is that the only reason why anything happens at all?
October 21st, 2005 at 9:49 pm
The bloodline stuff is meaningless…most anyone with European ancestry is descended from Jesus if the story is true. They ‘push’ that line because the old treasure line is too pat and the truth is too arcane.
October 21st, 2005 at 11:32 pm
I was thinking about something similar earlier. I’ve never seen why people are so into this concept to begin with, but the whole thing about like “why does god allow evil” - i was thinking: maybe cause it makes things interesting, exciting and dramatic, and that’s it. its just conflict in a plotline.
October 22nd, 2005 at 2:32 pm
I know someone who calls herself a hereditary Gnostic. She claims descent from medieval royalty. Now, in itself, this does not seem terribly interesting. My own family tree supposedly includes Charlemagne as well as two “taxable mulatto” — most likely yours would look similar. But this suggests an interesting point: Britain still gives an absurd amount of wealth and attention to some family because they claim descent from a primate by the name of Bill, who bullied his neighbors. That seems like an extreme case of a fairly common behavior in modern society (see Hilton, Paris). In a different society I would see ‘royal treatment’ as a disadvantage, but ours manages to make it look good by comparison to poverty. So why do people allow all this, when any fool can see that chance distinguishes the royals from the peasants? (Chance, or arbitrary factors created in part by the royals.)
By the way, my friend claims that hereditary Gnostics like to distort the truth or make jokes when revealing their secrets. For example, they lied to the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. (Or enlisted them in the joke.)