[kortilla]

Nobody looks at a map before saying “most of the world is experiencing X”. This is a fantasy straw man.

[InSteady]

No one claimed people do this. You have created a straw man-ception. Our awareness of the world is informed by distorted maps, even if it only impacts us subconsciously.

[kortilla]

No it’s not. Nobody cares about Greenland despite it being larger than all of Europe on the projection.

[darkwater]

Well I actually used to think - before being educated about map constraints and the Mercator projection - that "Wow Greenland is HUGE".

[kortilla]

How old were you when you learned that though? I thought the same thing until we were shown why it’s misleading in like the 4th grade.

[nerdbert]

Obviously not. And nobody said that. Talk about straw men.

People have internalized a sense of the relative sizes of different countries, and that internal representation is what they refer to.