This article misses what I think is actually the bigger "distortion"[1]: the idea that an externalized, view of Earth as an object in space should be the default way of visualizing our place in the universe. This is itself a distortion based on a long, long lineage of philosophical-religious ideas on how the world is constructed and how human beings fit into it. It seems to me that we could construct any number of other maps that are either more truthful, more useful, or more in-line with human thriving (eudaimonia) [2].
In other words, if all maps are distortions, is the one we're using actually the one we should be using?
1. I don't really like this word, as it implies that there is a real shape of the world and that every other perspective is somehow wrong.
In other words, if all maps are distortions, is the one we're using actually the one we should be using?
1. I don't really like this word, as it implies that there is a real shape of the world and that every other perspective is somehow wrong.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia