Metaphorically stated, unfortunately: a metaphor is just a means for escaping local minima and channelization.
davew On Mon, Mar 16, 2026, at 8:55 AM, glen wrote: > That's some good advice, there. Narratives like the naked Emperor are > crucial tools for posers and con men. Each and every metaphor you > identify in a missive is evidence of the authors' (plural possessive - > no such thing as a sole author) Bad Faith. And the number of metaphors > is directly correlated with the extent of the Bad Faith. > > None of us are innocent. None of us are the child in the narrative. > It's a venomous fiction, injected by the fangs of the storyteller. Even > literal babies bring along their own "genetic memory", in utero > accretion, biases, and expertise. The story, that story and all others, > is there to persuade, to trick you, to canalize you into thinking in > some particular set of ways. > > Now I'd like you to stop thinking about elephants. > > On 3/15/26 10:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> Perhaps I should just drop the metaphor and speak to the beliefs the >> metaphor represents to me. Expertise both sights and blinds us; great >> expertise sights and blinds us greatly. > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω. > > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. > / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
