Grizzly Vedder and Abiding Metaphors

Different type of dream boogie presented to me a dream of Eddie Vedder as a Grizzly Adams like TV character who roamed the woods bought guns from people. He did it in a way that got husky staunch 2nd amendment types asking,
"Am I going to get choked up from a gun buying Eddie Vedder?"
He would tell the story of the gun as they saw it. Telling the story in such a way, they felt their gun belonged in a museum and they would then sell it to him.

And now, going to feel that dream boogie for a few and reflect on abiding metaphors.

In The Edge of Space-Time, Chanda Prescod Weinstein explores the power of our internal metaphors. Those we abide by, that remain unexamined such that we don't realize when they break down. All metaphors break down at some point as more data comes in.

In my dream Eddie would tell stories which abided by the other person's metaphors making them feel seen and understood. This part of the dream had me reflecting on Rwanda in the 90s and the Rweru Reconciliation Village.

This is both a comforting story in the wake of our current political climate and a bit horrifying because, what's it take for people en masse to allow their abiding metaphors to be questioned. Anyway, speaking of abiding metaphors and the current political climate, I feel like many people's (in the United States) internalized understanding of how the world works came from 80s and 90s action films.

Anyway, that's quite a meandering I might come back to another time. Speaking of movies though, for now let's go with something light like a Pixar story. At Pixar they once had an issue of being perfectionists which could be great but there are budgets and timelines to work with. They found themselves spending a bunch of time on something like the proper shadow falling across a penny or something normal movie goers are not going to notice. With budgets and timelines this level of attention to detail would take away from some of things movie goers would notice. They all knew conceptually that time was finite but that internal metaphor was fuzzy.

A producer decided to provide a new metaphor which human brains could sense better. It came in the form of popsicle sticks. Each one stuck on the wall represented 1 person-week of work. The sticks were lined up next to each character. This helped transition the perception of perfection as a virtue to what it was, a trade of a finite resource. This wasn't really an example of an abiding metaphor but more of a productive metaphorical shift for our brains to be able to really grasp a concept.

Alright, I've rambled on enough for this one for today but I'll surely be revisiting this idea of abiding metaphors.

p.s. - I really want to generate an image of Eddie Vedder as Grizzly Adams but I try to be mindful of what I use those resources for these days.