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Clarissa's Blog 
Your map doesn’t go far enough west to show the United States. Here in the Phoenix metropolitan area, we have almost 4.6 million people , and despite the heat — we’re the third hottest metropolitan area on the plant, after Baghdad and Riyadh — we get along just fine.
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What an empty place! Clearly they need to import several million random young middle eastern men!
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1000 people? Even villages have a population more than that. If this map was cities with more than a 100 people it would look completely red and would cause Cliff to panic even more. All that red! OMG!
I wonder how a map of cities with more than 10000 people would look.
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What I think is curious is that everybody sees something of their own in the map. The image tells different things to different people, to the point where somebody’s mind would even travel to Phoenix, which is not on the map.
The first thing I saw on the map is Spain and the second was Ukraine. Then I started thinking about the geographic vs psychological margins of Europe.
Cliff thinks about immigration. You seem to be bringing the framework of someone who knows what REALLY well-populated places look like.
And if we were to ask a hundred more people, they’d all see something of their own.
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“Cliff thinks about immigration.”
Well I think of the irony of the biggest densest reddest part being told that it’s in desperate need of millions of unskilled people.
And as someone who’s living just next to that big red dense area (that is demonstrating once again that it reserves the right to make decisions about what goes on in other countries like the one I’m in) I think that’s understandable.
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Hey, I’m a literary critic. The #1 commandment I live by is, “All readings are equally valid if based on the totality of textual evidence.” The only wrong move here is to refuse to engage with the text at all.
But when people see the image and it tells them a story, that’s great.
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I’m not sure what exactly point this map is supposed to illustrate. I mean, it could just as easily illustrate that population is more evenly distributed and urbanized in Western Europe. If you did this map in the United States, my freshman year roomate’s town (~2000), my college town (~35,000) and Chicago (~2.7 million) would count for one dot each. This map maybe demonstrates the rate of suburbs and cities versus rural areas.
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Every text says exactly what we want it to say. The eyes of the reader / viewer give it meaning. And when many people come together to discuss it, the text comes alive.
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