It has been brought to my attention that people are not particularly interested in listening to my long, boring rants. I don’t take it personally, when I’m the one drunk off the kool-aid at a party I don’t want to hear whining from sober people about suspicious substances, imminent death, poison control and all that kind of nonsense.
So, I will try a more multimedia approach to showing us how absurd our perceptions of the world around us really are.
In what is the first in a series of a few places, I present “The World”, as viewed by a typical wealthy resident of Los Angeles (America doesn’t do “socialism” anyway so no one gives a damn what the poor think)
And just in case my LA friends think I’m picking on them, just you wait for my plans for NYC and Toronto maps….
(click on map to expand)
I’m too lazy to do all the math, but a breakdown
- Maybe 1-2% of the world’s population lives in the areas i’ve shaded reddish.
- 15-20% of the world’s population lives in the “cold” areas
- the remainder in the grey areas
Don’t ask me why parts of America are brownish or green. There was somewhere I was going with that…
#1 by Rebecca on March 13th, 2009 - 11:22 am
This is fascinating. You’ve done a great job at capturing the view of people living in a bubble. Thoreau once said, “The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
#2 by admin on March 13th, 2009 - 12:22 pm
As it turns out I am a big fan of Thoreau, I just never knew it.
I can still remember my first time visiting California and admiring the beauty of the surroundings, so much so that it inspired me to move there.
After living there a while, however, I noticed that not only was my appreciation of that beauty diminished, my view of the rest of the world became tainted by the fact that it might require some level of discomfort (cold being the usual boogeyman) to go out and seek it. It’s a trap that is all too easy to fall into.