The Explainer

The Symbols

Raccoon, Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, Glasses, Antlers, Bow Tie, Chessboard

Might Mean

Logic: reason, facts, strategy, common sense, analysis, the need to understand, rationalization, denotation, taking things literally

Knowledge: empirical knowledge, reality, experience, inquisitiveness, going down the rabbit hole, solving mysteries

Clarity: seeing things clearly, evidence, revelation, being clear about something to oneself of someone else, saying things explicitly, education, transparency, exposing secrets

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

Emotional Symbolism in Amelie

False conclusion – Theory of Everything

The uncertainty principle – A Serious Man

Amelie's mystery – Amelie,
I Want The Real Thing – The Brothers Bloom

Alternative Math,
Nature as a Game of Chess (Richard Feynman),
The Fundamentals of Space-time,
Are Space and Time an Illusion?,
Living in Higher Dimensions (Neil deGrass Tyson)

"As the influence of the collective unconscious increases, so the conscious mind loses its power of leadership. Imperceptibly it becomes the led, while an unconscious and impersonal process gradually takes control. Thus, without noticing it, the conscious personality is pushed about like a figure on a chess-board by an invisible player. It is this player who decides the game of fate, not the conscious mind and its plans."

– C.G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, par. 251

Chess game – The Queen's Gambit

Podcasts:
The Lie Becomes the Truth,
Faith Lost (This American Life)

Songs:
Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane,
Unbelievers (Vampire Weekend)

Writings:
Fables Of The Raccoon And Rabbit,
The 64-Square Grid Design of ‘Through the Looking Glass’,
Games People Play: How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other

Meaning-Making, Rationalization, Knowledge, Disenchantment,
Age of Enlightenment, Existentialism, Intellectualization,
Cult of Reason, Explicit Knowledge, Denotation, Realism, Reality,
Philosophy of Space and Time, Spacetime, Chess, Wiki Rabbit Hole

Literature: Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

“I can't believe THAT!' said Alice. 'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.' Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”