How'd I latch onto the trail of sinkholes this morning? While
Sinkholes are also some fodder to thought: if such sinkholes would be common on our planet (something which the doomsday proponents would have certainty in), then would our societies have a more depressing take on life itself? This leads from the existing metaphors that derive from nature - i.e. mountains to suggest a challenge, or bogs to suggest decay, or a tree to suggest proliferation/prosperity, etc. What metaphors would a sinkhole give rise to? Would it lead to anxiety towards continuity in life? Would it lead to wisdom like "On the best of your days, you might find yourself buried 100ft under."?
Second line of thought (a straight inspiration from David Cooper): that if acknowledgement of such large un-fillable holes were common, would we ultimately - note that this is the far end of my deductive chain - see women in a more potent role in the society? The 'hole' - void, gap, vacuum - has traditionally been seen as something incomplete, and an invitation to 'filling up'. This consensus that a hole needs 'filling up' also derives from a certainty that it is always a minor fault in a major feature. But what when the hole is the feature itself? Women have also been, too often, compared with something incomplete. These are metaphors intersecting here. Go infer.
While we're at speaking on sinkholes, I'd rather pay for this {insert synonym list for 'incredible' here} 4:18 short, than Ra-One types shit in the multiplexes. Presenting: Dean's Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt.
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