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Metaphor

Luddites versus Bullshit Machines

Haha those Luddites, raging against their fear of the unfamiliar rather than just getting with the times. Look where all that aimless lashing out got them! Here in the modern world we are clearly very enlightened and understand that technology is obviously good. Obviously. If only they had just stopped to think about their role in society!

Here’s a funny little story. Let’s suppose a group of people were experienced and employed in the field of producing ‘soft wares’, and took pride in producing such wares that were functional and resilient. In order to produce these wares, this …

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The packaging hypothesis

Let’s suppose you have a box. Ideally this is no mere supposition but you actually have a box nearby right now. If you don’t, you’ve surely had one at some point, so in that case we’ll talk about that box.

Boxes are made for storing things. You can put all sorts of things inside your box. You could even put another box inside it.

And you needn’t stop there. Another box can go inside your boxed box, or you could even put multiple boxes alongside each other inside the original box. All manner of boxes …

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