After watching the latest Spotlight, I have one question:
What's this monolith from the thumbnail about?
I mean, it's an interesting design choice for that Spotlight's topic. The glyphs on the monolith, when read from top to bottom, could be interpreted as 3 different words: Love, Responsibility, and Guilt.
I asked ChatGPT about it, and it wasn't able to recognize a known language. Instead, we came up with a more intriguing idea:
What if the picture is not about the language at all?
I'll try to explain:
1. The monolith is a symbol of immutability. It's similar to the monolith from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The monolith doesn't answer questions. It shakes up the lives of the primates (humans) by just standing there. A symbol for an immutable truth that we don't understand yet.
2. The glyphs on the monolith are yet to be deciphered. This is different from the black 2001 monolith. The glyphs show that the monolith has a past. A story to tell. Like a gravestone.
3. But, the glyphs are glowing, showing us that there's energy inside the monolith – and energy is always alive.
This tension between what we know and what we don't know could be the actual message of the picture. It's not about the glyphs, or the astronaut. The actual message is encoded in the composition. There isn't a secret message – there is meaning. There isn't simple information – there is relation.
And this leads back to the concepts of Love, Responsibility, and Guilt: The picture forces us to question whether they are monolithic concepts. It's not a dead rock, but instead, glowing with light. There is nothing that's "carved in stone" for eternity. There is something that wants to "talk".
Someone who wants to connect...
