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Re: your last paragraph...I'm concerned. I think you need to step away from your computer and your iPhone and go out on a few dates. Shocking as it may seem, "r
by sutro 18y ago
Re: your last paragraph...I'm concerned. I think you need to step away from your computer and your iPhone and go out on a few dates. Shocking as it may seem, "real sex" is not an iPhone app. You'll understand what I mean, in time.
- LPTS 18y agoWhen I say "facebook apps are to iPhone apps as circle jerks are to orgies" I'm not actually saying iphone apps are orgies. Shortly after people acquired the capacity to represent objects with words, they acquired a higher order of symbolic thought. One feature of this higher order language is analogy. Analogy is a way of talking about relationships between things in the same way that words are a way of talking about things. You pick four concepts, and structure them A is to B as C is to D. You use these concepts to compare the relationship AtoB and the relationship CtoD. If AtoB is less obscure, and CtoD is more obscure, analogy can be used to explain things. Analogy works particularly well when one of the components is somehow linked to our drive for survival, because everyone relates to that. Sometimes, a writer will use analogy, but in a looser form. An implicit analogy. I'm concerned you don't seem to understand this concept of analogy and implicit analogy. In this case, the analogy gets bonus points because sex and iPhone apps are both (different) pretty pure expressions of universal evolutionary principles, while facebook and circlejerking are weaker in their evolutionary significance. In this way, my analogy conveys more then one meaning. Also, and a more poetic level, real sex is everything because real sex breaks down the ego and then all thats left is everything.
- sutro 18y agoThanks for the lecture, LPTS. That was fascinating.