The ability to comprehend metaphorical statements in the context they are made is a sign of sanity. A measure of sanity.
To the insane, metaphors become reality. The sane easily distinguish between simple metaphor and reality.
The insane latch onto a metaphor and tie reality to it. The sane use metaphor to describe reality, and are less likely to allow a metaphor to distort what is real.
Do words and language add to or induce the afflictions of the insane? Of course. All words are a form of metaphor, use of simple words easily linked to what is real, simple grammars that clearly relate subject and object, these ease the troubled mind.
A more complex metaphor, or use in a complex of grammar can and do trigger schizophrenic episodes and psychotic breaks just of with words.
Incessant use of unreal metaphor in a culture will and has induced cultural insanity and a higher incidence of individual psychotic breaks.
When I say that much of the Muslim world is trained towards madness by the unreal metaphors and logics of the Koran and the body of texts derived from it who will be able to accept that observation?
And when I say that in the Western World, in America today, the language and words of the Left and the Elite are full of unreal metaphor, ungrounded and false analogy, who can accept it?
Yet these observations I have made and I note that nothing distinguishes Jared’s ecstatic bliss of a face in his mug shot of yesterday, from that religious fervor of a blissful face shown on so many Muslim Jihadis recorded for their memorials, ready to commit his or her precious and pre-planned act of heinous terror.
It is not the words of Constitutional conservatives and Judeo-Christian moralists which bear insanity in their metaphors!
Yes words and their usage do matter. Let us on our side CONTINUE to use them as we have been, with grounded sanity.
