Last night, in preparation of this post, I challenged the community to present a deep, symbolic interpretation of the shape below. The thought experiment was a success.

I was curious to see if any in the community would find the same meaning within this symbol as I do. I also offered a small bounty to the first one to match my own line of thinking. The 25 STEEM reward has been sent to @ausbitbank for his last minute entry which was very similar to my own interpretation. Congratulations, @ausbitbank.

Whilst I only offered a 25 STEEM bounty to one person, there were a number of very insightful comments which were thought-provoking, and a genuine pleasure to read.

As a demonstration of my gratitude for putting my mind to work, I have also sent 15 STEEM to @nobodyishome and 10 STEEM to @shenanigator for their innovative interpretations.

Thanks a lot to everyone that participated and to the top three comments which I rewarded.

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My personal interpretation of the inverted pyramid

My mind introduced me to this shape whilst thinking about a potential symbol that could be used in my novel, Blood: Oaths and Offerings. I needed a sign that would serve as a call to arms for members of an oppressed society, provoking them to rise up against the tyrannical forces responsible for their hardship. It did not take much time at all before the inverted pyramid, or even simply a downward facing triangle presented itself to me as a potential symbol to use.

Why?

We are all familiar with the pyramid. It is often used to represent power.

We find the pyramid n many representations of Capitalism, and even in individual corporate structures, where the higher up the ladder you climb, the less people there are on your level. Most notably, we find it on the back of the US currency, which is a tool used to gain power over of us all.

To merely look at a pyramid can subconsciously reinforce the false ideology that the few are more powerful than the many. Writing this now, I am beginning to wonder if that is the whole point.

When I look at a pyramid, I do not see power. I see the greatest illusion that man has ever fallen prey to.

The truth

It's somewhat ironic that the illusion can be exposed by simply viewing the pyramid from a mathematical perspective. What would happen if you turned the pyramid upside down, so that it is standing on its point? The tip would break under the weight of the much larger portion of the pyramid above.

We can see this demonstrated through the example of corporate structure. We are all told, and reassured through rampant subjection to pyramids, that those at the very top of the business are the ones with all the power. Are they really though? What happens when the worker bees at the bottom realise they are truly the ones who hold it? Their newly empowered sense of self manifests itself in the form of worker strikes.

The so-called bosses, whom were under the impression they had all of the power and all of the control, are forced to bend to the will of the workers or they will have no business to reign over.

Now take this philosophy and apply it to the elites of this world. I do not refer to your Barack Obama's or your Donald Trump's. No, I refer to those who choose which candidates will have the opportunity to become presidents or prime ministers. Those are the ones who invented the pyramid, and if I'm correct in my assertion, decided to incorporate the symbol into so many parts of society to fool us into thinking the many are more powerful than the few.

The predominant sentiment among mankind is that things are shit, but there is nothing we can do about it. They're too powerful. It's unsurprising. If we take the pyramids of Giza into account, we can see that man has been conditioned with the false paradigm perpetuated by the pyramid for thousands of years.

That is generations upon generations of mankind being subjected to a symbol that represents rulers, monarchies and power belonging to the few. Whilst our conscious minds may think nothing of it, our subconscious takes great meaning from symbols. They can be a source of ideas, of beliefs and of associative ideologies.

Imagine, if you will, the significance of the inverted pyramid when taking all of this into account. It could be a tool that it used to remind each and every one of us that the power has never resided with the few. It has always been, and will always be with the many. The inverted pyramid could be the key that unlocks the door to this illusion we are born into, and exposes the vulnerability of the few when threatened by the weight of the many.

How long do you think it would be before we saw change--real change--once the people learned the truth about power?

This is what I see when I look at that shape. I might just be crazy. I might just have an active imagination. Either way, thank you for letting me share it with you.

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