Analyzing Popular Lost Theories

Summer is for fans of the TV show "Lost" to study in detail the different theories from all of the new data revealed during the season finale aired in the US on May 23, 2007.

Not only did Ben, boss of the Others, had calmly killed his own father, but had waited years to exact a childhood vow to destroy the entire population of the Dharma residents.

Many names of the characters in the TV show "Lost" are referencing historically real people.

The LC, (Lost Character), James Ford, (Sawyer), is a con man who represents the capitalist paradigm of survival. IRL, (In Real Life), James Ford led a double life as an upstanding civic leader and a leader of the river pirates headquartered at the "Cave-in-Rock" on the Ohio River. In 1834 Ford was shot down dead in an ambush.

The LC Anthony Cooper references IRL Anthony Ashley-Cooper, (1621-1683), an English politician who was the mentor and patron of real-life philosopher, John Locke who is another character in the show.

The LC Desmond David Hume references IRL David Hume, (1711-1776), philosopher of skepticism.

The LC Danielle Rousseau references IRL Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712 - 1778), who idealized the noble savage, innocent and pure until corrupted by society and civilization.

The LC Sayid Jarrah references IRL Edward Said, (1935-2003), a theorist who defined the concept of "The Other" with regard to foreign cultures.

The LC Mikhail Bakunin, who has already died and risen twice, is referencing IRL Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876), who affirmed the entire devastation of bureaucracy in order to allow progress.

The LC Boone Carlyle references IRL Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881), "Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."

IRL Richard Alpert was a cohort of the infamous LSD guru Timothy Leary. The LC Richard Alpert seems to be an immortal native of the Island because he doesn't age from the time Ben was a young boy.

IRL Edmund Burke, (1729-1797), philosophized universality of certain moral tenants. "It is better to cherish virtue and humanity by leaving much to free will, even with some loss to the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence."

The Lost character Charlie Hieronymus Pace may be referencing to Ben's "wish box", called a Hieronymus machine patented by Dr. Thomas Galen Hieronymus which allegedly works by symbolism or ESP powers.

The historical Katherine Austen authored the book "M" in 1664 and is a chronicle of herself as a prophet in her battle to maintain possession of her late husband's holdings.

Not a Lost character but is referenced in the TV show "Lost" is B.F. Skinner. Skinner held that there was no free will or freedom and that humans did not sense the controls being applied to them. It is an urban myth that he had a psychotic daughter resulting from his psychological experiments upon her.