Prismattic comments on Living Metaphorically - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 28 November 2011 03:01PM

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Comment author: Prismattic 30 November 2011 02:31:44AM 3 points [-]

For example, in English we often use the metaphor of life as a journey. We know this already. What should we do with it?

I'm trying and failing to find the study through Google, but I recall reading research where this was actually quite class-dependent. The middle class and affluent tend to conceive of life as a journey; the working poor tend to conceive of life as a struggle.