Its hard to blame someone for miscommunication when the problem is actually with the English language. If the fruit we eat is an eggplant, then what is the plant? An eggplant plant?

I water the tomatoes listening to David Harvey lecture on the labor theory of value.

Now I am behaving like an enraged silverback gorilla. I am picking up sticks and throwing them back down on the ground.

It is a feature of our time that many of us now worry that the universe might actually be some sort of a giant simulation.