'A 100% realistic map of the Mississippi, the Amazon, or the Nile would be 100% as long as the Mississippi, Amazon, or Nile!
 
Mapping like this has me thinking of the large wrapping projects of Christo & Jeanne Claude such as the wrapping of the Reichstag or the islands off the Florida coast.

[https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/surrounded-islands/]
 
Then I think how one dot can represent a city of 10 million or 30 million people:  here’s Lima:  ·  .  Here’s Mexico City:  ·  .  Impossible and yet so easy.  We all get it.
 
Here on this poster of the Milky Way Galaxy, this dot is where you and I are – the entire universe represented by one dot:  you are here:  ·  '

-Fragments of Memetica, No. 27, pt. 2  [20210109]

'To talk about memetica is already to simplify and, one could even say, skew reality in a certain sense.  But it is also to clarify reality.  If you glance at a map, you are definitely not looking at reality, but you likely are gaining a more useful vantage point on reality.
 
As it often has been said (e.g. Borges), a map that 100% matches reality would be absolutely ridiculous: it would be as big as the land it was mapping.  It would be a 1 for 1 correspondence to the actual geography.  So a map like this of South Dakota or New Brunswick would be the same size as South Dakota or New Brunswick!'

Fragments of Memetica, No. ​27, pt. 1  [20210109]

"I’ll sort of come in and out of immersion with this ‘ecology’.  How do you describe something you are within?  Meanwhile I – I think all of us – also are ‘outside’ it.  Call it a paradox if you want to, but I may think of it as a ‘dialectic’.
 
A dialectical approach to memetica in some senses of being is ‘in it, but not of it’, except that we are ‘of it’, too, but somehow we can be ‘out of it’, i.e., outside it.
 
Both mystical and practical.
 
A ‘cloud of unknowing’ with some knowing in the cloud."

-Fragments of Memetica, No. 26  [20201230]