Know Your Enemy

<span class = "bigfont">(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[Know Your Enemy]</span> (align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[a multi-media hypertext musico-literary ficto-critical memoir, packed with compound adjectives and prolapsed subtitles <span class = "midfont">Bodhi 心 Paine-Mason]</span> (align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[[;]]

//Know Your Enemy: a multi-media hypertext musico-literary ficto-critical memoir, packed with compound adjectives and prolapsed subtitles// is an experiment in hypertext recording the music and literature that has influenced my evolution since about 1990. I was born in 1983, but the accepted wisdom is that our conscious mind does not come online until we are about 7. That said, there will be songs from before the 80s ~ as a matter of course. To get this project started, I made a few [[agreements with myself|the Agreements]] (optional reading, not advised). For you to get this project started, I recommend the [[Table of Contents]].

# the Agreements //These are conditions/parametres I need to agree with if I want to produce anything without constantly second-guessing myself. They may also be published along with the actual artefact for any fellow nerds who might appreciate it.// ''It will be produced using Twine'', because: then I can map the pages and the narrative lines produced by the links. I will need to "port" the text over to a site for publishing. The structure is based on Joseph Campbell's monomyth of the hero's journey, and the reason for this is to rewrite my life story so that I am the hero, not the victim. So this is a therapeutic exercise and, for other reasons, a spiritual practice (supporting the cultivation of a healthy ego by placing my small-self in its place ~ its place being: within a much vaster system than I could ever fully comprehend ... hence the sprawling, ever-expanding nature of this ~~beast~~ artefact 🦋🧠 ''The creation of this artefact is an opportunity'' to (size:3)[test] myself, learn something new (such as coding! ☎️🌍🤯📚🤓🙏🏻🦋💚), stretch the wings of my creativity, and embrace my love for emojis, which I wasn't born with, in 1983. ''Each page/passage will have some kind of format'', so: it feels complete to a reader; I know when it's "complete"; I have some parametres to guide my work. Page types include: * song * literary passage * notes/asides * monographs ''It will be unashamedly nerdy'', sometimes with long ficto-critical tracts exploring esoteric subjects such as the illumination of the unconscious. I might include patchy depictions of dreams. This is related to me reclaiming the so-called maladaption of "thinking too much": I am not a victim of an over-active intellect; my over-active intellect is an adaptation to the belittlement of my upbrining, and is now a veritable superpower. As much as I will try to publish only "complete" pages, ''I will also embrace the reality that I need to publish unfinished things'' if I don't want to get stuck/paralysed with publishing and be sitting on a stack of half-finished, unpublished entries. ''The style of grammar/punctuation will be unashamedly idiosyncratic.'' ''The whole thing will be produced using as much free and open-source software as possible.'' There may be an option for folk to send donations. Free, copyright-free images will be used as much as possible, and modified according to my evolving understanding of progressive copyright. |work out how to set an indent| I still need to consider the copyright structure I will use for the overall artefact.

(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//Fallacious cognitions spewed from televisions Do mold our decisions So step into the light Can't you see what I see now! //] (align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[[Introduction]]

# Table of Contents 0. Separation 0.0. the 80s 0. Initiation 0. Return