alt Hacker NewsOf course. It’s an allusion, a compression, an analogy, I wouldn’t overthink it. I don’t have to believe in the Bible to reference the prodigal son parable, etc.
Of course. It’s an allusion, a compression, an analogy, I wouldn’t overthink it. I don’t have to believe in the Bible to reference the prodigal son parable, etc.
It does NOT work as an analogy. It does not work at all. And there are too many people right now who spent too much time watching/reading sci-fi and too little time observing real world.