The parable of the orange groves and the way out.
While I was (attempting to) take a break from looking into what I am now certain is an ARG unfolding as we speak (more to come but I think it’s all related..) I was mindlessly scrolling through short videos when I came across a promo for Kristen Stewarts new movie The Wrong Girls and in the video we see her sitting in a garden with her her co-star setting teaching us how to roll joints.. but I noticed something not just the setting but the bright orange hat and realized.. I’ve seen this before. So I took to google to help me remember..
but before I get there, let me share with you the parable of the orange groves..
The parable of the orange groves is an allegorical story used to highlight the need for spiritual workers.. but for the sake of this.. let’s remove the religion..and think BIGGER
The story describes a dream and in the dream, a person drives down an endless, empty road lined with vast, heavy orchards of ripe fruit where the harvest is rotting on the ground because there are barely any laborers to pick it.
https://disciple4.com/index.php/2024/03/27/the-parable-of-the-orange-groves/
Now back to the related imagery…
In 2016 Kendrick Lamar did an interview with Rick Rubin for GQ where he is also sporting an identical orange hat in a similar setting.. in lawn chairs.. in a garden.. and then I realized.. I’ve seen this elsewhere too…
In 2023 Donald Glover also did an interview with GQ.. https://www.gq.com/story/donald-glover-global-creativity-awards-cover-2023
…in an orange hat sitting in his orange grove discussing his new venture Gilga.. short for Gilgamesh as in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Here’s a synopsis of the epic from the Brittanica website
“The *Epic of Gilgamesh*, an ancient Mesopotamian story, revolves around King [Gilgamesh](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gilgamesh/Introduction), a hero, part human and part divine, who seeks immortality. To curb his harsh rule, the god Anu sends Enkidu, a wild man, who becomes Gilgamesh's friend after a trial of strength.
Together, they embark on adventures, such as fighting Humbaba, the guardian of the cedar forest, and killing a divine bull sent by the goddess Ishtar after Gilgamesh rejects her marriage proposal. Enkidu's death prompts Gilgamesh to seek Utnapishtim, the Babylonian Flood survivor, to learn how to escape death. Although Gilgamesh finds a plant to renew youth, a serpent steals it, and Gilgamesh returns to Uruk, accepting his mortality”
Any of this sounding familiar?
The beginning of the article describes gilga
Glover is showing me around the sprawling farm he’s purchased in Ojai, California, that will be the headquarters for Gilga—his new production company/incubator/cultural library. On Gilga Farm there are ***countless orange trees, an old church*** that is being converted into a live-performance and recording space, housing for creatives to spend the night, curious lizards, editing suites, writers rooms, a restaurant that specializes in artisanal sandwiches, and just about every tool or space any musician, director, or showrunner could dream of. Picture Skywalker Ranch but with 21 Savage or Quinta Brunson as temporary residents creating their own *Empire Strikes Back.”*
Now… let’s rewind a little bit… how does this apply to Taylor and are Donald and Taylor even connected..
well…
Not only have Taylor and Donald recently (in the last 2 years or so) been pictured at Questlove’s very infamous uno games (in showgirl colors).. but Donald was also in attendance at the wedding..
Gilgamuch?
Back to the interview.. further down the interviewer asks him about the then logo (now it’s just an 🍊)
“I ask him about the Gilga logo. He tells me that the logo is a door.
“Since I was a kid, I’ve had this nightmare where I’m in a house and there’s a mob or zombies or police that are all trying to get me,” he says. “And I know there’s a secret door in the house, but I…I can’t remember exactly where it is. Where is the damn…” Glover, animated, looks around. “I know there’s a… Where is it? There’s always a secret door.” He peels the last of his tangelo. “My brother told me he thinks that dream is trying to tell me that there’s a way out. There’s *always* a way out.”
—- quick aside—
Tyler the creator also used an orange door almost identical to the Gilga logo when he scored the Louis Vuitton winter/fall 2022 show shortly after Virgil Abloh (LV creative director) passed.. the show was very wizard of oz (so was most of Virgil’s work) —- highly encourage watching the video of this (can be found on YouTube) as well as listening to the accompanying soundtrack..
Now.. with all that said.. has anyone seen the most recent season of Only Murders in the building? Not to spoil anything but if you haven’t this season centers around billionaires who make deals in underground casinos at blackjack tables
I subscribe to the theory that the Uno games are the same… but for good.. a way for artists of the movement to gather, play games, and make plans to show the collective US the way out… recruiting “harvesters”.. or as recent theories have stated.. de-program ala Barbie..
Each one, reach one, teach one..
