Notes on Metaphor      

1. "I" is an illusion.



2. "You" is an illusion.



3. Things are real, but we rarely know them for what they really are.



4. The human reality is an illusion. It exists nowhere beyond the social construct; we know nothing beyond our religion, science, language, behaviors, diets, media, etc.



5. The social construct is essentially linguistic in nature. Every religion has a syntax; every science possesses a grammar; all behaviors are rooted in subject and object.



6. The social construct is unstable and largely driven by the dynamics of institutional power.



7. Institutional power is an illusion.



8. The function of metaphor is to challenge and temporarily reorganize the construct. When I say "taut mouths furred with murmuring," I make a conjunction between rope (taut), body (mouths), the animal (furred) and language (murmuring). This is discordia concors. By making a specific instance distinct through descriptive metaphor, I consequently make other accepted boundaries of reality indistinct. The metaphor diminishes differences between things.



9. The perfect metaphor deletes all boundaries of distinctions between things.



10. The perfect metaphor erases social construct and replaces it with unity.



11. The perfect metaphor eliminates itself by virtue of eliminating difference to define a new thing.



12. A synonym for the perfect metaphor is satori.



13. The new thing the perfect metaphor defines is reality.



14. To approach reality, you must destroy the I/you pair.



15. To destroy the I/you pair, you must connect the two through metaphor, thereby diminishing their distinctions.



16. Once you destroy the binary opposition, you see little distinction between yourself and others. Every person is a constituent of self. You are large and contain multitudes.



17. When you are large and contain multitudes, you will be the most dangerous entity alive. You will be the people.

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