With my proneness to consider things in abstract terms I think it's healthy to make a paradigm shift from time to time, and listen to somebody who embeds ideas in material world. I've recently found a fragment of George Lakoff speech on how metaphors are actually physically created in the mind. Very convincing argument I must say:
It must also have something to do that middle-aged men with a beard, and clear calm witty speech, do seem trustworthy. I wonder how this metaphor was created...
This is a fragment of a longer lecture that Lakoff made on his book "The Political Mind". He explains the conceptual frames our brains work on and comments mechanisms of political views. Here's the recording of the whole session in New York. Worth taking into critical consideration:
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