
ML186: Gary Lachman on Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, Meme Magic in Politics and Life as a Rockstar
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The Language of the World
Thete must have been at some point thad the simple language. And then a kind of generation of prehistoric poets appeared, and for some reason they started playing aroud with the language. It's out of that that our language came and myths came out of that too. The further you go back in any this language, just that in itself will create a change in how you see the world. We use metaphor all the time, and we don't know that we use it. Human knowledge is to reality as prisoners stuck in a cave peering at shadows on the wall. That's an extended metaphor. But the literal person is, clato, why ansaa wi? Show me the
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