~~~ My Love/Hate Relationship With Metaphors ~~~
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 1:36 pm
.
I LOVE metaphors - For Example this one by Eva Cassidy who I just happen to be listening to now as I type with my headphones on - You can tell the sun in his jealous sky. Just beautiful - Fields of Gold.
As Julian Jaynes argues - Mankind advances his language and his understanding by the use & discovery of metaphors.
I HATE metaphors because actually ALL WORDS ARE METAPHORS and - at times I want to see underneath the surface, so to speak. It is the turntable of philosophy that I am trapped in pursuing during my life.
Turns out seeing beneath the surface is extremely hard - if not impossible to do and outwardly is completely unrewarding. Almost complete detachment is required. Which again...is impossible.
And the impossible hardly ever happens.
.
I LOVE metaphors - For Example this one by Eva Cassidy who I just happen to be listening to now as I type with my headphones on - You can tell the sun in his jealous sky. Just beautiful - Fields of Gold.
As Julian Jaynes argues - Mankind advances his language and his understanding by the use & discovery of metaphors.
I HATE metaphors because actually ALL WORDS ARE METAPHORS and - at times I want to see underneath the surface, so to speak. It is the turntable of philosophy that I am trapped in pursuing during my life.
Turns out seeing beneath the surface is extremely hard - if not impossible to do and outwardly is completely unrewarding. Almost complete detachment is required. Which again...is impossible.
And the impossible hardly ever happens.
.
