• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    She may just be pointing out how buzzwords seem to explode throughout the internet, like when someone mentioned boiling a frog in a pot and now someone shares that exact metaphor in every 1 in 4 threads.

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        1 year ago

        It’s usually true about what it’s being used as a metaphor for, though. A metaphor doesn’t have to be literally true. It just has to make sense.

        Like pull yourself up by the boot straps. No one’s dumb enough to think it only means “help yourself”, right?!

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          Actually the bootstraps one is a good example of the general public missing the point entirely. Originally, the phrase was used to describe something impossible, and was repeatedly used sarcastically to describe an inherently unjust economic system that makes upward mobility impossible.

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            Yep, and people still try to use it as a metaphor for something completely different. Just something that no longer makes logical sense all on its own.