[FRIAM] A bold meteorological theory

[glen]

That's some good advice, there. Narratives like the naked Emperor are crucial tools for posers and con men. Each and every metaphor you identify in a missive is evidence of the authors' (plural possessive - no such thing as a sole author) Bad Faith. And the number of metaphors is directly correlated with the extent of the Bad Faith.

None of us are innocent. None of us are the child in the narrative. It's a venomous fiction, injected by the fangs of the storyteller. Even literal babies bring along their own "genetic memory", in utero accretion, biases, and expertise. The story, that story and all others, is there to persuade, to trick you, to canalize you into thinking in some particular set of ways.

Now I'd like you to stop thinking about elephants.

On 3/15/26 10:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Perhaps I should just drop the metaphor and speak to the beliefs the metaphor represents to me. Expertise both sights and blinds us; great expertise sights and blinds us greatly. 
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