Dancing Maps
Words and facts
Bats can hear shapes.
Plants can eat light.
Bees can dance maps.
We can hold all these ideas at once and feel both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all.
Doesn’t that fill you with wonder!
Someone replied:
The absurd beauty comes from a really simple misconception, none of these facts are real. It’s just their simplified version so most of the people manage to “understand” this living beings special capacities.
But words are not facts.
The map is not the territory - Alfred Korzybski
Words are maps. Facts are territories.
Which is why poetry is the most accurate way to render our universe.
And also the most beautiful.