Like any other creature, a society eats.
We call this "consumption", as if it is somehow different by nature.
But the techniques we use so often reflect that of a single creature. This
quarry has been stripped layer by layer, just as we strip an apple of its' flesh
through a series of progressively deeper bites...
Dynamite or rock cutters push
apart the rock from body of the hill with forces similar to those that are
produced by the wedge shape of our front teeth. We grind these chunks of food
with molars not dissimilar to the rock crushers found at most mines. We often
put this rock through a series of water-rich chemical processes to purify a
valuable material within, just as our saliva and digestive juices break down our
food into usable material. The bi-product, whether through a refinery or a
digestive tract, is an undesirable material to either.
This website
is dedicated to the proposal that the metaphorical relationships drawn
between any two disciplines are, in fact, universal, being
isomorphic mathematical derivations of the Unified Field Theory. Further, that this symmetric
aspect of
metaphor is extrapolatable both linearly and laterally, thus may be harnessed to mathematically
predict missing knowledge
and invention in all
other disciplines: an interdisciplinary Rosetta stone of
universal scope.
"The
metaphor reminds us that the universe is full of cousins." -
J.D. Casnig
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use only. Work should be cited as:
Casnig, John D. 1997-2009. A
Language of Metaphors. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Knowgramming.com