6 May

Like many people I've been baking bread recently. It made me think about how we understand the world with models, mostly metaphors. For example our model of society tends to be little people-atoms that aggregate together to form clumps or groups. Folding dough is a much better model, I think. There are no parts in dough, you fold all of it, at once, and it mixes. Society is like that, it's not individuals or groups. It's a big lump of dough that gets folded daily.