A colour most are familiar with, and one we are surrounded by in the natural world. In the man-made one, however, it has a different purpose.

Soylent Green – a fictional ‘product’ in the film of that name, where it was the food available after society has shafted itself. The twist being that soylent green was humans being fed back to humans unknowingly. Since we’ve had reports of human remains being found in macdonalds, is it so far-fetched to think they do? Maybe that’s what it stood for with the yellow and red colour scheme, a different coding system using colours. See my article Seeing Red.

The Green agenda, people are now all too familiar with this term. Net zero, taxes, restrictions, and all the other hoo-ha that is being thrown in. Again, the word green being used to denote ‘nature’ but in fact the opposite is what gets proposed. A bait and switch, expecting grass, but you end up with AstroTurf.

Green screens in moviemaking to deceive the eyes and mind, a magical illusion you knowingly take part in. But can we tell when it is not so knowingly?

Green matrix background – when they show you ‘the code’. A glimpse into how the simulated construct appears behind the scenes, as never-ending streams and lines of green symbols. An intricate web of tiny green screens, creating an overall illusion, that the electric signals in your brain then pick up and projects – creating what we then know as a three dimensional ‘reality’. Or something like that.

Green of Oz – the emerald city and the green curtain that hid the truth. But it is said in the original stories, that the city wasn’t emerald at all, but the visitors were made to wear green glasses when they arrived, so that it only appeared as green and sparkly. A more manual version of that matrix code perhaps.

Green pops up in mythology here and there too, for the colour of skin. Reminding me of the strange children to appear from a cave in Cornwall that had green skin, mentioned in Appearing From Nowhere. In Hinduism, the Goddess Matangi is represented as emerald green in colour, the Egyptian God Osiris is known to be green in many depictions too, to signify rebirth and growth they say. The Green Man myth from the British Isles along the similar vein. And for a more modern idea, we have The Incredible Hulk, not quite the same, and with quite a different backstory, but kind of fits when you realise how fantastical the ancient stories were, he might just fit quite well.

They say you get green with envy too (as well as anger as above with the Hulk) – that having its roots in Greek mythology and finding new footing with Shakespear’s Othello. And with symbolism and numerology being quite significant these days, maybe chromatics are important too. How they affect us, our mood, thoughts, feelings and ideas. So, there may just be more to green and other colours, than meets the eye…

(c) K Wicks