{"id":8094,"date":"2018-10-25T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2022-02-09T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:42:14","slug":"meta-idiots-guide-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/meta-idiots-guide-to-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-idiot’s guide to meta"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some of our earliest schooling we learn about metaphors.\u00a0 Perhaps we even read Kafka’s Metamorphosis<\/em> (wikipedia<\/a>).\u00a0 By college, we look into metaphysics, or know enough about it that we do not want to know more.\u00a0 Meta, a Greek preposition, is used in several English words to indicate a concept which is an abstraction of another concept (wikipedia<\/a>).\u00a0 Yet, today, it seems to have taken on a new life where there is a meta version of most any word or concept you can imagine.\u00a0 I tested this theory, brainstorming what I thought were ridiculous meta permutations.\u00a0 Then I looked them up and discovered that all but one of them was actually in use by someone, somewhere.\u00a0 This is my meta-idiot’s guide to meta.<\/p>\n