I saw a cool line in a play once where the protagonist - an English major who ended up going into coding as a career - gets mad that his fellow programmers don't understand what he means by "Scylla and Charybdis" Ranting about how it's a failure of abstractionhttps://twitter.com/NarandiaOwl/status/1302537758720876545 …
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The very fact that, you know, if I'm trying to use the Distracted Boyfriend meme to say something I'm probably not talking to anyone my parents' age
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Actually I'm trying to think if there is a Twitter meme that means what "Scylla and Charybdis" does "The movie villain vs the real villain" isn't really it
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But classic Greek literature is pop culture of a bygone era, and at the time it was written its audience was only a sliver of humanity as well.
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That's the difference between machines and humans. Humans don't need a set of universal metaphors. The human experience is a cultural marketplace of competing literary devices. And that's not only OK it's vital.
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