Why is everything a "war" in the American media? war on obesity, war on diabetes, war on this, war on that...?
It is just businesses competing to sell products - maybe a little too interested in suing, but business nevertheless.
It is just businesses competing to sell products - maybe a little too interested in suing, but business nevertheless.
A lot of narrative here in America eventually turns into good vs. evil, and War on X is an example of that. I've heard people attribute this to anything from religion, to the revolutionary origin of the country, to military-industrial conspiracy.
[1]: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3637992...
I don't see how that works - partners dancing together are cooperating to improve the outcome. Those competing in business are (unfortunately, in capitalist systems) almost always trying to profit and destroy their competitors. It's perhaps a bit like moshing?
War fits as a better metaphor for companies under capitalism.
If the companies were helping each other and targeting better products with less profit, that would be more like dance partners.
I think the idea is backwards. We don't use military metaphors for anything competitive, we use words related to competition for describing war, because war is competitive by nature. It goes back and forth from there.