Starting a new life overseas in my dreams on the eve of the debate: followed by reflection

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This poem is based on a dream. All the elements in the poem were in the dream except for the bit about me having worked for the CIA. In writing the poem I am imagining that the CIA hires poets who are people who process reality analogically. "Analogical" means based on, relating to, or expressing analogy. For example, "My house is so cold. It's like a refrigerator in here." is an analogical expression. Or, my house is a refrigerator. (An analogy is a comparison, often a metaphor or simile, that helps to explain or make something clearer. The word analogy comes from the Greek word analogos, which means "proportionate". Analogical reasoning is the cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from one subject to another (which is close to the definition of "symbol"). The subject being transferred from is called the analog, or source, and the subject receiving the information is called the target. )
Two people who think analogically can communicate to each other metaphorically. Even though what they are saying would sound like gibberish to a mathematician or a logician or a computer programmer, they are actually, or at least arguably, using language on a higher level than someone who is communicating within a logical bandwidth. If I say that my house is a refrigerator that might just be the beginning of a very creative outpouring of imaginative possibilities. I can carry that metaphor to an extreme and have a lot of fun with it by expanding the metaphor exponentially. A refrigerator is much more than a cabinet for keeping food cold, it has different compartments and uses, such as a fruit drawer and a vegetable drawer, a freezer section and an ice-maker, and it also has that little light. A house also has different rooms, somewhat analogous to compartments. I can easily imagine a food setting up house in a refrigerator and inviting his or her food-friends over from, say, the pantry, which is a space for the storage of food that has a longer shelf-life that is, cool, dark and dry.
Even AI is learning how to communicate and process analogically. The question is, what does that mean for poets? Are poets going to be out of a job? Is there a robot out there that can write a poem so much like me as to replace me? (I doubt it because my style is not static. I have written poems myself that mimic me, and, in every case I detect what I am doing and stop myself. My style of writing is evolving, not refining. If a poet is refining their style of writing then they are essentially writing an algorithm for replicating themselves and writing themselves into a corner. I can think of some well-known poets who have done that but I am not going to mention any names so as not to offend anyone. (You can tell a lot about someone by asking who their favorite poet is.)
Why would the CIA want to hire a poet? Well, I have just suggested a reason. If you tell me who Putin's favorite poet is, that alone would open a window to his soul for me. Another thing that the CIA might consider is, Russians and Chinese are much more open to analogical thinking than their American counterparts, who have somehow managed to set up shop in the left brain. (And, by the way, I havelearned that people who are stuck in their left brains poo-poo the paradigm of a right and left brain, which makes perfect sense because a paradigm is just a sophisticated metaphor.
Poets are not psychics but, given the CIAs history for recruiting psychics, it isn't a big stretch to imagine that they might want to recruit poets.
Footnote:
From Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room:
Approved Form IWe 2001/ Former Top Administrator Reveals: CIA Secretly Uses Psychics & Mediums ment with the supernatural began 15 years ago - after the agency's best double agent had been caught and killed by the Russians. "The CIA had a very suc- cessful but short-lived agent named Olag Penkovsky, a Russian KGB colonel," re- called Marchetti, who served as executive assistant to the deputy director of the CIA be- fore retiring in 1969. The Russian agent lasted little more than a year before he was arrested, tried and ex- ecuted by the Soviets, "After he was killed, some- body said, 'Why don't we try and contact him?' That's how they got involved with medi- ums," Marchetti revealed. The success or failure of ef- forts to contact Penkovsky is still a closely guarded secret. But it is believed that the ex- periment expanded into a full-scale program. They began to contact our own dead agents, as well as dead agents from the other side," said Marchetti. Marchetti said that at one point word flashed through the agency that contact had been made with the famous Major Popov, a Russian agent who disappeared in the 1950s. FORMER TOP ADMINISTRATOR REVEALS: CIA SECRETLY USES PSYCHICS & MEDIUMS
Document Type: CREST
Collection: STARGATE
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CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080025-7
Release Decision: RIFPUB
Original Classification: U
Document Page Count: 1
Document Creation Date:
November 4, 2016
Document Release Date: November 5, 1998
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