You're not one of these 'Overton Window' windbags, are you? The type who thinks that theoretical, political models are reality itself.
More autistic Totalism. Somehow "the map is not the territory" (which is true) morphs into "maps do not in any way represent the actual features of a territory, and therefore are useless" (which is nonsense).
Read up on the Lewis and Clark expedition if you want to see what trying to get around a territory without a map is like. Spoiler: It's incredibly hard, is extremely dangerous, and it takes a really long time. Things tend to happen like falling into icy rivers, getting chased around by Indian tribes that like to scalp outsiders, and spending months on end in subzero weather looking for a pass through a mountain range. If you survive, you can make a map that the people who come after you can follow, marked with helpful notes like: "River Impassable In Spring", "Danger: Hostile Indians In This Area", and "Mountain Pass Located Here". Trust me - they'll appreciate it.
(There's a reason why good mapmakers are revered - so much in fact, that the entire continent I'm sitting on was named after one.)
So yes, I know - the map is not the territory, the recipe is not the meal, the blueprint is not the building, and the theory is not the political action. But there's a reason that maps, recipes, blueprints, and theories exist. The more one has a robust model of something (e.g. a territory, a process, an idea set) built in their minds, the easier it will be to understand and successfully navigate through it. Only an autiste par excellence would have such an inability to grasp the concept of abstraction that they wouldn't see the value in that.
Read up on the Lewis and Clark expedition if you want to see what trying to get around a territory without a map is like. Spoiler: It's incredibly hard, is extremely dangerous, and it takes a really long time. Things tend to happen like falling into icy rivers, getting chased around by Indian tribes that like to scalp outsiders, and spending months on end in subzero weather looking for a pass through a mountain range. If you survive, you can make a map that the people who come after you can follow, marked with helpful notes like: "River Impassable In Spring", "Danger: Hostile Indians In This Area", and "Mountain Pass Located Here". Trust me - they'll appreciate it.
(There's a reason why good mapmakers are revered - so much in fact, that the entire continent I'm sitting on was named after one.)
So yes, I know - the map is not the territory, the recipe is not the meal, the blueprint is not the building, and the theory is not the political action. But there's a reason that maps, recipes, blueprints, and theories exist. The more one has a robust model of something (e.g. a territory, a process, an idea set) built in their minds, the easier it will be to understand and successfully navigate through it. Only an autiste par excellence would have such an inability to grasp the concept of abstraction that they wouldn't see the value in that.
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