Backwards Brainwashing

Many LOST fans have discovered that if you play the brainwashing scene from "Not in Portland" backward, you can hear a voice saying, "Only fools are enslaved by time and space". Here is a link to one youtube example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVuX35tU0no&mode=related&search=

Based on my wormhole theory, and the fact that wormholes can be used for time travel, as well as space travel, I am, of course, seeing validation in this clue.

I think that wierd dude from Mittelos (an anagram for "Lost Time") Bioscience, Richard Alpert is from the future (which would mean that Ethan, and most of The Others are too).

Did anyone else notice that Alpert wears heavy eyeliner? I don't think this is significant, just a little creepy.

Anyway, I also stepped through the brainwashing sequence frame-by-frame. It is full of symbols of fertility, birth, etc. (flowers blooming, fruit, sayings about planting seeds...). Then there is the stuff about Sun's surprise pregnancy, and the conversation Alpert and Juliet have about the sonogram of a woman's womb. The womb appears to Juliet to be from a woman in her seventies. Alpert says she's 26. Juliet asks what happened to her.

So, here's my thinking: In the future, people become infertile. Alpert and others need to find a solution to save humanity. They travel to our present, and abduct Juliet to help them. They take her to The Island, where they have Ben, and other people from a more fertile time, to be used for research and breeding. Their particular interest in children comes from the fact that children are a prescious resource in short supply in their space-time.

I'll keep working on it.