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God DNA (Story Idea)
Instead of money, people are afforded privileges based on talents. But where do these talents come from? [Some people, it is said, are inoculated with the DNA of a famous historical figure at their birth. Our hero is not one of these people.]
A child is born without privilege (To sorry parents?). The mother secretly tells the child he is talented. The father kills the mother then disappears.
The child is placed into the church (poor in spirit). The church tells him all talents are from God (The boy believes that his talents are his and do not belong to God).
Having a talent is a terrible sin (Why?).
The child confesses (in confidence). His talent is confirmed by the priest (as belonging to god).
He suppresses his talent (but looks up to the priests who secretly practice the arts). Thus, the boy is afforded privileges in the church that others (specifically women) are denied. The child finds sanctuary in the church (false sanctuary?).
The priest teaches the boy that women are evil (need to know).
Nonetheless, the boy meets a woman. He is tricked by her to display his talent (and becomes a convict). In humiliation, he takes up a simple profession (he becomes a slave). He puts his talent aside.
[Perhaps the reader is starting to understand that talents are repressed by society in certain people but are awarded to others? This is the social situation (the religion) which supports the development of the technology].
The technology: God DNA (or Transmutation*).
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A similar hallucinogen is also used on the streets which makes people believe that they are famous people from another time. And some children, often those born to addicts, are idiot savants (they act odd but also know things that they have no obvious way of knowing).
[Our hero is none of these: Where did he get his talent?]
As a slave, our hero becomes frustrated. He takes out his frustrations by using street drugs and, as such, by visiting prostitutes ( prostitution and drugs are part of the same culture).
The street drugs temporarily give him talents (talents which belong to other people?). And women who see these talents are attracted to him (Perhaps they secretly want talented children?). But every time he displays his own talent in front of a woman, he is humiliated by her…
… except that he enjoys being humiliated by women. He looks up to them because they seem to be ‘naturally’ gifted. At least, they are wise to the talents of men (and the uses such talents might be put to).
- He gains status as a convict.
- He gains conviction in the use of certain negative talents.
- He becomes more addicted.
- He seeks out more humiliation.
And he represses his own talent more and more, publicly; though, privately he displays it (generally to men) because he enjoys the feeling of control it gives him…
- he can compete with other’s talents using his own
- he can oppress others and make them slaves
- he gains mastery over others
- he gains conviction regarding his own talent
… and he loses all of this, ecstatically, when he humiliates himself with a prostitute or while on street drugs (at oneness in shared shame with all ‘these’ others from the past who similarly had talents and similarly squandered them). He is angry at his mother for encouraging him to be talented. He dreams of having a wife… and of having a son, and of giving his son everything he never had for himself.
[Ok: Does the man get his talents from...
- His father?
- His mother?
- The priest?
- Women?
- Prostitutes?
- Street drugs?
- As a convict (through conviction)?
- By his mastery over others?
... or was he inoculated with DNA at birth? If so, where did it come from? His REAL father? His real father must have been a very important person...]
He marries. He shares his concerns with the priest during confession, in confidence. He is forgiven. He finds peace in the church away from his wife. He goes there often. And he is afforded privilege by the priest to practice the art of ecstasy, in altered states of consciousness, and even with the help of certain unnamed techniques (chemical or otherwise).
A child is born. The mother complains that the father has abandoned her and the child to practice his ecstatic talents with the priests. In a fit of ecstasy, the father kills the mother. The priests cover up the murder, and take care of the woman’s body, then demand that the man sacrifice himself for his own sins…
The child goes before the church. There is a ceremony where the priest is making a sacrifice on the altar… he is preparing a holy elixir. With the congregation present, he anoints the child (to their ecstatic chant: SEALED! SEALED!).
[Some people, it is said, are inoculated with the DNA of a famous historical figure at their birth. Our hero is not one of these people.]
