The World We Know vs The World That Is

Thanks to Vera for twigging me to this brilliant West Wing Video that covers some of the things I love best;

cognition

behaviour

social organization

how linear thinking impacts social equity

maps

This is today's version of heliocentrism.  The world we feel we know, isn't.  This is a concept that goes far further down than you might think.

The world we perecive, thanks to information we take for granted as accurate:

The world as perhaps it is better reflected two-dimensionally:

Of course, the world isn't two-dimensional.  Nothing in our world is, except for the way we perceive it.

Being conscious of this, we can change the world by understanding it better.