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CMV: this movement only matters to stupid people, and does not qualify as something "I should know".
I'll split this into two:
People who are interested in geography, geometry, cartography, political science, geopolitics, culture, cognitive biases, ethnocentrism... generally not a low IQ cohort.
Ironically this might be true, just not for reasons that are flattering to you...
I maintain that none of those people are the ones interested in this movement, and if you believe they are, you haven't spent any time thinking about it. Again, I'm looking for any actual legitimate argument in support of it. A condescending argument from hypothetical authority isn't going to cut it.
maybe a little abrasive in tone but i don’t totally disagree, this is kind of fucking dumb and i don’t understand why i’m seeing this everywhere rn.
mercator hasn’t been ubiquitous in decades and when it is used today there’s usually an actual reasoning, however valid one decides it to be.
what the fuck are these people talking about?
a campaign for this? what, are we going to campaign to cease the use of subway maps next because they give a dishonest sense of size and scale of metros?
this feels like weird distraction bait from things that actually matter.
This is the correct take... The only time people care about maps these days are when they go to maps.google.com. And that's an actual 3d representation. Therefore this issue is such a non-fucking-issue that I don't understand why I've seen so much noise about it here.
It's stupid.
Does it matter that I don't know the actual size of Africa compared to Greenland? No... It's completely irrelevant to just about anyone's day to day life. And even if I did grow up on a map that was more accurate... You know what I'd likely miss out on then? Actual directionality which DOES matter more for a typical person.
Looking at the other maps presented in these threads... They all lose the ability to reference NSEW compass directions.
Except for one... and guess what... that one is the one that I actually remember from school. Or at least a variation close enough to it that can't make out any difference from my memory.
Yeah, I'm open to any valid arguments for why it would matter, but I haven't seen any. People who think land size should correspond to representation are....to be more diplomatic: not making any effort to think things through.