RE NYT THE STONE EDITORIAL THIS IS YOUR BRAIN AND SAY SYMBOLIC NEANDERTHAL ANALYSTS METAPHOR AND POSSIBILITY

There may be more types of beings than are usually connoted by the term 'symbolic analyst'.

One might, for example, call politics a 'Conversation of Symbolic Analysts', or a 'Clash of Symbolic Analysts';

or one might think of The Clash of Civilizations, as a 'Clash' of Symbolic Analysts.

The 'symbolic analyst in everyone' should be of special concern, more so than the more narrowly defined globalized IT 'group'.

They don't necessarily have to be savvy IT techies, in the desert, or the mountains, or in an office. They don't even have to know how to read, really.

Perhaps they don't have to be human, say 'BONOBO SYMBOLIC ANALYSTS'.

One might depict the nyt author, who has a great deal of hair, in a 'symbolic analyst' interchange with a neanderthal, or with either a very clean cut or punk kid geek, IT techie or two; I can't think of the captions yet.

The bonobo pyramid of experts, say for this purpose a 'Pyramid of Metaphoricians', with something in the captions about 'monkey shines', and 'Possible Worlds', would also work. There might need to be an element of slapstick, banana peels, or banana republic reference.