Primitive animals will sometimes keep chattering or twitching their muscles even after their heads have been cut off. And that's probably the best analogy today to the president's continuing enunciation of his policies.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker compares the president's policy output to a dead animal twitching, suggesting mindless persistence.
- In plain terms
- The president keeps talking policies like a dead animal twitching after death.
- What can you take from it?
- Actions without a living purpose are hollow and instinctual rather than intelligent.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is it better to stop or keep moving without purpose?
- What makes a policy alive?
Another view
This analogy is dehumanizing and ignores possible reasons for policy persistence.
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