MAP IT1!!!

Well I was very surprised when I read this article especially when it was telling me that every maker is socially influenced. I did not understand that at all. All my life I thought maps were concrete evidence of geography. Then the point was brought up that even thought the evidence presented is in fact real the way it is presented can influence the "reader" of the map. For example many map makers or "authors" cannot create maps without a budget or some outside source funding them. Therefore, it is almost impossible to really not be influenced in the making of the map and what will be shown. That is why many historical maps show many certain parts of an empire or it showed who the power was during that time. I thought that was so interesting especially when he got into the details about how even fact is up for interpretation because everything is socially influenced and therefore cannot be all together. My mind at this time was completely boggled and could not seem to wrap my head around this theory. If everything was influenced did that mean that nothing was really true?? I felt like was becoming one of the inane people who find themselves deep by declaring general and hideously, annoying statements about life that nothing to do with anything. But in a way that's a point that this article raised. I may not be able to disprove the theory right now but for the sake of my sanity I shall have to choose to believe that facts are facts... and are therefore concrete!