AtD, maps, mapping and mismapping.....just sayin'

[Mark Kohut]

The map stuff in this section Laura has just sent around reminds me of a couple-three things:
   
  1) the masks stuff---cause everything is hidden. Talk about the map not being the territory!
  TRP might be joking on THAT with much else.
   
  2) Renfrew's maps might go around the whole world. Like satellite networks; like wireless networks; like the internet.......like a justification for total Paranoia?
   
  3) Mapping is often how language is spoken of....and, here, it is all codes and disinformation readable only by Specialists, by the Spies.........(we can't forget the world of betrayal and inauthenticity we are in).......and the map may be predictive of the future....self-fulfilling 
  prophecies?........the inevitablity of War and destruction once the deceptive Spying world
  has become the norm?.......................
   
   

       
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