madlib

personal history can become a mad-lib. the result is less story so much as apparatus, and life-as-apparatus is a very interesting way to live

try this:

1. when a measurement is given, pull the measurement out and leave the name of the spectrum itself

2. when a subject/object distinction is made, redact

3. rework the statement so that it generally works for you for all measurements and subject/object distinctions

you have a tool now. what does using it here feel like?

this is basically calculating the antiderivative of a story and seeing what you come up with

"treat your neighbor as yourself" as a logic tool: "treat [x over there] as [x over here]" lets the solipsist and the dualist make it as friends

"the problem contains the solution", and apparently life is differential equations

although wait wait hang on - the map is not the territory and neither is the tool. gaining a tool doesn't cost you the territory. it means you get to do stuff with your territory that you couldn't imagine until you held the tool. plus, have you thought about linking territories this way? this is a cheat code for interdisciplinary problem-solving. (and if you jump territories really fast, it reads as comedy: madlib vs stdlib)

mad liberation, maybe