That Lady Gaga black/red combo was not an accident. ‘The Hill We Climb’ is not the cliff we scale

There’s been considerable attention paid to Amanda Gorman’s poem at the Inaugural, and since I had 15 minutes to explain the last story on semiotics as a cultural analysis tool, I decided to try again, this time with twice as much time and with some simple and less-simple examples. From the land of Biden McBiden-face…