User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/Taxi driver
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Taxi drivers are people who follow a taxis. The term refers here more usually to insufficiently reflected intuitions or trends than a simple stimulus. These are the concept of a directional stimulus taken to a higher level of complexity; let's call it intellectual taxis.
Following a taxis without reflecting the reasons and the consequences (and then the consequences of the consequences) is unintelligent behaviour and, most usually, leads do some kind of pathological situation. In a way it is like failing the Turing test.
This is the offer of a false dilemma because few people are following an intellectual taxis all the time or never. Resisting a taxis is a skill that you can train, but you will hardly be always successful.
Is there a further insight hidden in this? There are "people" who are very close to unable to resists an intellectual taxis, which are mammals.
You can see this as a further hint that you should be prepared to take the view of a non-human mammals one in a while.
As everybody knows taxi driving can be useful at times but it has its cost.
Interesting side note: The legally required color for taxicabs in germany until 2004 was Hell-Elfenbein {de} (light ivory), creating an association between hell and ivory.
Also a well known phrase towards taxi drivers in movies is "follow that car". This could be translated as: "You want taxi drivers to follow a vehicle".
[edit] Meta Metaphor
This may be a meta metaphor for not always thinking "about yourself / your own advantage".
- not thinking independently -> not thinking for yourself -> not thinking of yourself -> not thinking of your own advantage.
[edit] Synonyms
animals, inline skater, Dust in the wind, mind-surfer, robot.
inline skating, e.g. the song "Heaven Is A Half Pipe" (by OPM).
- Wow when most people think of Heaven,
- They see those pearly gates
- But I looked a little closer and there's a sign that says Do Not Skate.
[edit] Related
sick, dead, blind (see: death)
[edit] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy refers to taxi drivers as mind-surfers:
If you stood with your back to the main entrance lobby of the Guide offices (assuming you had landed by now and freshened up with a quick dip and shower) and then walked east, you would pass along the leafy shade of Life Boulevard, be amazed by the pale golden colour of the beaches stretching away to your left, astounded by the mind-surfers floating carelessly along two feet above the waves as if it was nothing special, surprised and eventually slightly irritated by the giant palm trees that hum toneless nothings throughout the daylight hours, in other words continuously.
[edit] See also
- Blade Runner (inline skating)
- SWR3: Taxi Sharia
