Metaphors are the names and symbols that mark something and allow it to represent something else. Metaphors are symbolic and often go beyond the naming object or emotional state. As human beings, we enter a chaotic world. People who have been here have given the name of "something". For us, these "things" have become names, and these names have a strong symbolic value.
An example might be that the Internet is a metaphor, a vast network of cybernetics, a vast network of cybernetics, a metaphor of a whole civilization, a positive thought and an image matrix, usually shared by a composite human mind. And through the world, regardless of caste, skin color, religion, gender of financial status. This is the true democratization of metaphor. It is no longer restricted by language, intellectual caste or economic privileges.
The brain acts only as a control room, which houses the recognition screen. We all know a lot of things. We know more than anyone in history. We know more than just what we have reason or need to know. In our culture, we benefit from constant information, but we rarely turn to "owning" our knowledge. Our wisdom, knowledge and beliefs are like a wardrobe, and price tags still exist. They lack real rituals or values. Since information is easily assimilated, we tend to give up its intrinsic value. According to the "clothes" metaphor, we try on them and then hang them back in our closet, intended to wear them at some point in the future if they become "fashionable". But understand that if you don't wear them, these metaphorical clothes can always be returned. We don't have to "own" them. A bit like our work, relationships, cars or cats, they can be exchanged, mixed or abandoned.
After all, reality is undoubtedly a group consensus. We give a "name" thing, as a culture, we agree with this symbolic name, so it is... it is valuable.
What matters is not the content, nor the political inclination. Even the creativity displayed in the text on the page is not. Instead, it is an ancient process as human: the naming and assertion of reality, the metaphor of metaphor. This is a metaphorical order, as strong as the driving force of food or water. The pursuit of humanity from the very beginning is, in the final analysis, the pursuit of the seeds of truth.
[From the eBook Metaphor Bridge, written by Jann Burner]
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