> John had said: > To belabor the metaphor a bit and thoroughly grind it to dust Arlo, a map is > useful for following in the tracks of someone who's been there before, and a > compass is useful for venturing into new territory. > > Ron belabors the metaphor into a thick cream : > A compass is essential for the orientation of any map and without first > knowing where we are at, > it's all venturing into new territory. Once we are oriented and understand > the map we may then > successfully traverse into the unknown with the hope of returning if we wish. > The idea being to > expand the map right? a compass helps very little in the wilderness without a > map. Finding north > isnt that hard.
Hi Ron "In the 17th century Thomas Hobbes wrote: "For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves; For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.” Leviathan ch XIII. "That is why literature is so great. Literature brings people closer to understanding each other. A book is a mirror of the world. It shows how the author see the world around him. It is a map of his concepts and the connected matter to it that is known to the author. .... " --- "John’s head was filled with pictures now. Food. The search for food. The first humans on Earth were interested in food. They moved around to find food. They learned where the oranges and the nuts were growing. By standing upright and walking on two legs they could move fast through the landscape to find fish and meat. They must have had a good sense of orientation. A way to remember and calculate the best ways to find food and water. The best way to escape from enemies and predators. Of course the brains of the survivors had good orientation capabilities. The first road maps were drawn in these brains. As humans learned to use words they could exchange these pieces of orientation experience into bigger systems that gave the clan an advantage over other clans and species. The tribe that had the best overview of the area got the best pieces of the food. John saw a picture in his mind how this map of human evolution had grown from maybe a little valley in South Africa. The pre-historic human beings had spread north of Africa along the coast up to Asia and Europe. For every new find, the map in the human minds of the surroundings had grown with new concepts. Every new find of a fruit tree, a new valley with animals to hunt, or a fishing bay, got its own name. Ancient tracks and places were forgotten and new ones were added to the living map. An expropriation of the Earth could not have been done without this orientation capability. People would have got lost without it." Eventually they found their way to the Internet and MD. Quote taken from my coming book http://web.telia.com/~u19233574/Jan-Anders/Money%20and%20the%20Art%20of%20Losing%20Control.html Jan Anders Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
