The map is not the territory, but…

My blog: https://magpiepinette.substack.com/ My Ko-Fi (including Discord tier): https://ko-fi.com/readingisaskill I'm on Twitter now: https://x.com/MagpiePinette My consulting page: https://magpiepinette.com/ My animal arts & crafts channel (on hiatus):    / @edgubi   Companion channel for short readings aloud:    / @magpierecites   AB titles: The map is not the territory, but… To navigate reality we need the right maps Lost in modernity? You're probably using the wrong map Books mentioned (with applicable affiliate links): "On Exactitude in Science" in Collected Fictions by JL Borges trans. Andrew Hurley – https://amzn.to/4f7lDv7 Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, trans Sheila Faria Glaser – https://amzn.to/4yxcx2p The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle (half read) – https://amzn.to/4vP5ks8 Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James – https://amzn.to/4s7NIpn Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change by Don Edward Beck & Christopher C. Cowan – https://amzn.to/4bFJlvy A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber – https://amzn.to/4c2ginc Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism: His Deliverance from Error by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, trans. R. J. McCarthy SJ – https://amzn.to/40Q2ZA2 Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition) by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Marion Faber – https://amzn.to/4gGJPpo A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell – https://amzn.to/40Z71pU The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell – https://amzn.to/47w6zmF 0:00 – Introduction 0:21 – Borges on reductionism 1:18 – Baudrillard on simulacra 1:45 – Searle on social reality 2:57 – Maps as a metaphor 4:00 – Pragmatism 4:33 – Spiral Dynamics 6:52 – Agency vs communion 7:17 – Brief overview of levels 8:42 – Impact of perspectivism 9:25 – When did 2nd order thinking emerge? 10:56 – What does coral look like? 12:09 – Left/right politics vs spiral dynamics 14:36 – Spiral dynamics for map versus territory 16:07 – Restatement 16:23 – Coral = social reality? 16:46 – Conclusion & outro