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Today's episode is part three on Susan Sontag. I hope you love the show today.

So again, here we are just like last time, looking at the mythology that surrounds something

that's so normal to us in our everyday lives that we may not even notice it.

Last time it was about pictures and videos, this time Susan Sontag is going to critique the popular

use of the metaphor and culture. How the way we use metaphors can sometimes go on to hurt people

in ways that we never intended. And something out there at the start of the podcast today might be

thinking, well, I'm safe on this one. Look, you got me last time with the pictures and videos,

but I'm pretty sure the last time I used a metaphor was in the ninth grade in a poetry assignment.

I mean, who really goes around their everyday life describing things using metaphors? What do you

want, Whitman? But in reality to Sontag, when we're talking about metaphors, we're also talking about

similes. We're also talking about analogies. Let's not get caught up on the semantics here. We're

talking about anytime you're trying to explain something in a way that compares one thing to another.

And then the entire cultural mythology that surrounds a particular thing because of those comparisons.

In fact, maybe the best place to start this discussion today is how we started last time by trying

to look at the metaphor like you're an alien that comes from a different planet where they don't

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