Kyle Kallgren's incredibly insightful discussion[1] of sci-fi from Frankenstein to Black Mirror explained one of the mechanisms that create wars out of too much

Kyle Kallgren's incredibly insightful discussion[1] of sci-fi from Frankenstein to Black Mirror explained one of the mechanisms that create wars out of too much interconnection: metaphor shear. >> That feeling all users experience when you realize the metaphor you asre working in is bogus. When the computer fails you and you remember that there are a hundred translations between input and output. Codes and translations we don't have the time or patience to do ourselves. Intellectual labor that we've surrendered to a device. The map is not the territory; the force-amplification benefits of technology also includes an imperfect model of reality. > the poor Babel fish From the same video essay: >> The joke at the center of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is about metaphor shear. The answer to an important question lost on its long journey from input to output. A computer glitch so huge, so strange and so embarrassing that its programmers have to make a computer the size of a planet to file a bug report. >> The most advanced software in the world of Black Mirror is people. So many of Brooker's stories use perfect copies of people rendered as software. Easy to download, and very easy to abuse. Of course, this technology already exists. There are already other people on our devices, rendered as text and avatars. Individual contact abstracted through one hundred layers of metaphor shear. Sometimes, that shear makes it to easy to commit inhuman acts. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A