Status Updates From Metaphors We Live By

Turns out this book is far less engaging than I thought. Gonna keep track of my progress chapter by chapter, to motivate me to finish it.

As Charlotte Linde (in conversation) has observed, whether in national politics or in everyday interaction, people in power get to impose their metaphors.

Of course this is the one checkout that has a hold on it -_-

Try to imagine a culture where arguments are not viewed in terms of war, where no one wins or loses, where there is no sense of attacking or defending, gaining or losing ground.

actually surprised they didn’t get into the imagery of heaven and hell in the ”Virtue is UP; depravity is DOWN” section

For a summary of chapter 1 you should listen to The Great War by Taylor Swift