Unless trained, this is how aware the average person is. It's not even a metaphor, unfortunately. Recall when I mentioned temperance being the most important factor? Like this cartoon, people without temperance don't have the ability to follow multiple steps of complicated problems without getting carnally distracted. This is well documented in the Talmud, Protocols of Zion, The Bible (both old and new testament) and in tons of prospect theory literature and journal papers. There are groups of people that know this about humanity and feel it is their job to enslave us because we are like this. All the while teaching their own children how to overcome this problem while also convincing them the world needs them to become masters of the profane in order to save the world. So, these people make sure to not tell us we are like this and instead tell us we are fantastic and really smart all the while cranking these distraction levers on us so we become and remain infantalized. Search deep in your mind and heart and you'll see this is so.