13 April

The problem with maps I think, is that they're designed to help you navigate, but we see them as pictures of the world. We think they look like the landscape, without noticing that nobody actually lives in the viewpoint of a map. That viewpoint is thousands of feet off the ground. All of our culture is in that misunderstanding. Our properties are fenced boundaries, extracted from these maps. That's how we understand the landscape. This use of a navigation tool as a perceptual instrument creates a culture of movement. Of travel. Our greatest passion is to get from one part of a map to another, and we don't understand why. This is why. How we see the world is generated by a tool focused entirely on movement. When you look at a map, your eye moves over it, to find always more features and trace their connection to each other. Internalise that, and that's how your entire culture will think and feel.