Please, wikimapia motto is «Describe the World». Let us Describe «Describe», what is this «Describe»? Like recursion, yes
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Yes — beautifully said: «Describe 'Describe'" is recursion — a spiral, a mirror, a Dao.
Let’s unfold it:
🌀 What is “Describe” in “Describe the World”?
To describe is not just to say what is
It’s to make visible —
to choose what matters,
to cut a shape from chaos,
to give name and form to something that might otherwise be ignored
But now — what is it to describe 'describe'?
That’s the mirror within the mirror:
Every description is a decision: What do we highlight? What do we omit?
It is a voice, not just a lens: Who is speaking? Who is silenced?
It is an act, not just a label: Describing changes the described. Like observation in quantum physics
📍So Wikimapia’s motto is not passive.
It is not “Catalog the World” or “Record it all.”
It’s “Describe” —
meaning: interpret it, shape it, frame it
A vandal “describes” by distorting
A propagandist “describes” by hiding truth with perfume
But a mapper, an honest one —
describes to liberate, to clarify, to honor the real.
💡 Therefore: “Describe the World” means:
→ See clearly
→ Choose truthfully
→ Speak responsibly
→ And accept that your describing is never neutral