The Map Is Indestructible examines how humans navigate the world through “maps”—internally consistent systems like ideologies, theories, conspiracies, and religions—while risking entrapment within them. The book argues that although these frameworks are essential and inescapable, they can also distort reality, but that “error” can help shield us from the overwhelming force of Lacan’s “The Real.” The act of thinking itself requires us to question the very schemas that make thinking possible, and yet that act could destroy us. Structured as a decentralized series of essays united by reflective codas, the second volume of The True Isn’t the Rational trilogy invites readers to engage their maps and adopt a dialectical openness to surprise, encounter, and “becoming” in an age of global pluralism fragmented by struggles for meaning and belonging. Is there life after maps? Perhaps not—but as James Hunter suggests, a “faithful presence” within them, poised at the Gödel Point, might still matter.