[letlambda]

>I suspect that metaphors are the tools of cargo cults while analogies are the tools used by those that actually understand a system in order to convey it to those that do not.

Are the metaphors actual tools, or more like metaphorical tools?

[fallous]

Crappy tools are still tools.

[letlambda]

It's a metaphor, metaphors aren't literally physical work implements.

[fallous]

And tools are not limited to physical implements.

[letlambda]

They aren't, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.