The grey area...
If you can't accept the lesson of the metaphor, how can you truly expect to change or transcend what your hatred towards the metaphor is doing to you? Is it really not worth it to sit down for a second and accept you can't control what other people do with their lives? Those are their choices. Maybe if we as individuals just focused on our own choices and made better decisions with better outcomes, maybe this could add up and we could naturally influence each other to strive for greatness.
I feel this is how we got to where we are today. It feels like a purge is happening, right? Left and right all kinds of things are happening around the world. In our communities. From the earth. Think about your own choices and take accountability for what you're putting out into the world. Blaming everyone and everything else never gets done what YOU want done. That is your decision, stop fucking with other people's metaphors and focus on your reality.