‘we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well.’
The map and the territory, mistake one for the other and the one can lose its utility for the other.
Imagine someone using a technically accurate Google maps as a substitute for traveling to a place. Much of the pleasure and satisfaction of travel s lost yet the tool's utility for suppprting navigtion remains despite the redundancy of the misuse.
Note also that using the terrain/territory as its own map is equanimous with taking a somatic/sensual/gestalt approach to life rather than a narrowly abstracted one, despite the map's specific, abstract utility.
