(May 27, 2012 at 3:39 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Nothing like making the defense fit the case. Bullshit on the metaphor. It was not written for an educated audience.
No,it was not,but perhaps not the best idea to conflate 'uneducated' with 'stupid, or worse, 'educated' with 'smart'.
Using allegory and metaphor in myth is a common practice.