Reply #5: Butterfly has had the symbol of something beautiful from something else. [View All]

Sure it can be fit to mean other things also, but the real use of symbols is by defining them.

And it goes way back. Taking a symbol, can change the meaning of it in someones mind.

What does liberal mean to most people after years of talk radio?



Also once your symbol library gets big enough, you can not see anything without also seeing 100 different meanings. Hence why you have to have a grounding in reality.


Although it does show how the mind works, and how visual images have always stored ideas.

Think of them as computer macros. An image has a feeling and thought attached to it, most marketing is trying to program a macro into an image. For instance, when a Rush listener hears liberal, the macro of hate taken in from talk radio is what they feel. That is how most of it works.

If you see an image, what the macro in you says it means, is the feelings and thoughts you have, that is why people have to look in the mirror and think why they think things, to clear their macros.

To combat marketing, people have to be more aware of the subconscious effects of things like imagery and symbols, so they can think and not be programmed.