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I don't think this is a great analogy. The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological. The popular "butterfly" is very
by andrewflnr 3y ago
I don't think this is a great analogy. The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological. The popular "butterfly" is very concrete and precisely depicts something biological, namely a dead butterfly.
Taking the article, again, perhaps too seriously: Just because a symbol has gained cultural currency doesn't mean we need to accept it as is. We can change. We can fight our immediate symbol associations. Personally I think we should.
- bawolff 3y ago> The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological. My understanding is it depicts the leaves of the plant Silphium, which in the ancient world was used as birth control.
- andrewflnr 3y agoHa, I forgot about that. Perhaps I overreached. IIRC that's rather speculative, though, still a bit abstract, and certainly not close to what we use it to represent today, so I don't think it helps the original analogy.
- ssnri 3y ago> The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological Just gotta think lower down