If "Language is a virus from outer space"
then metaphor is a love letter to our lost souls-seeking to retrieve affection
Politics is full of cliches posing as metaphors-posed Press Conferences,
shaking hands,smiling,kissing babies,feeding homeless @soup kitchens
These are placebo images.Same with advertising featuring"Doctors"in white coats
touting fluoride toothpaste.Assumptions /connections with our group mind.
Our history is cliched as Zelig's "Peace in our times".Our religions devolve
from poetry (Song of Songs)and parables to fundamentalist Bibical exegesis.
Metaphor means more than connotation-from Asberger's to autism.
We use all of our senses to interpret poetry and song lyrics.-
which at their best convey a synesthesia appealing to every part of us.
Language allows our etymology to evolve from grunts to codes-
computers use a form of metaphor..there is no"information superhighway"
nor a literal"Web",nor"pages"in "Facebook".Take away this facility
and we lose home ludens.Atomic theory poses Dancing Wu Li masters,dark matter,black holes
and materials that manifest not as matter but only occasionally as relationships
(like marriage)(without a pre-nuptial settlement)
Our minds work well with metaphor-Shakespeare and the Bible reek of other meanings
and defy standard interpretations.Lamb's"Tales from Shakespeare"stripped plots to prose
and lost the richness of multivalent meanings.Bowlder attempted the same.
In science,a Bibical strictness violates all evidence to the contrary-
and "faith-based"politics makes for more teenage pregnancies.
"Pregnant with interpretations"-from Wall Street's "dead cat bounce"
to the affect heuristic of contemporary advertising.Metaphor works!
Your job is to find out why?
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