# The Blog is Not the Insight By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2022-10-13 Perception plays with wild abandon in the space between reality and understanding. Various individuals have attempted to draw attention to the importance of that region of thought. [[Alfred Korzybski]] framed it metaphorically by stating, “a map is not the territory it represents.” Surrealist artist, René Magritte, conveyed the theme in his painting [[The Treachery of Images]], provocatively and boldly declaring, _Ceci n’est pas une pipe_ (this is not a pipe), underneath what certainly seems to be a pipe. Added to the long list of interpretations of this point is, _the blog is not the insight_. Any tweet, blog, paper, book, or _text_ (in the deconstructivist sense) only contains opportunities for insight, not the insight itself. Individuals interpret and abstract the value they discover within themselves in confrontation with a text. An idea, phrase, or quote may be somebody else’s; the insight is always one’s own. Living accordingly is liberating. #### Related Items [[Perception]] [[Reality]] [[Understanding]] [[Thinking]] [[Words]]