I've been thinking about a silly idea. We've named four cardinal directions, but only North is real
What do I mean?
I mean North is, strictly speaking, the direction to which compasses point. South is just a reversed North. East and West are perpendicular to North in opposite directions. The other directions are abstract concepts, best understood in relation to North. But North has an anchor in the physical world.
North is real. The other cardinal directions are, arguably, not.
They are useful though.
As so many unreal things are
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