I.E. deru: duration - tree, truth, troth, druid. (Knock on Wood)

Dear Linguists & Colleagues Across the Curriculum
(Courses w/o Borders series)

The TREE Diagram



Toward Representing
The process of perception & thinking:

DIVIDE & CONQUER—for sure.
(repair and reconcile? Not so much)

Human Nature-Nurture (say)

.................“the territory”
/............................................ \
maps............................ what’s left out:
legends........................ (all the rest)
(maps of maps)

.................inhabitants
................ /.............. \
map-ignoran........... map-savvy
What?.................... "The map is NOT
Huh?.......................... the Territory".
Map?......................... "The menu is not
“What you....................the hamburger".
talking about
Willis?”

(good chance these "trees" get scrambled in
electronic translation from blog to Facebook.
Forgetabout it. Here's the point)

Idolaters ................Iconographers

Choose your “team”
Idolaters / Iconographers

Roots of two different “trees” here: a “territory”
tree and an “inhabitant” tree. Can you tell the
difference?

Either/Ors: basis for drawing distinctions. and
then elaborating into limbs, branches, twigs,
leafy canopy






Reduced version of the reduced version.

Map of the MAP, say.

If you fancy your self Larry Linear rationalist,
you would logically proceed to think from node
to some sub-node to some sub-sub node and
arrive at one of the boxes on the left..

If you are a considerate constellational, star gazer
and non-linear thinker, you might easily hop from
node to node on the outer branches, analogously—
like some birdy in a tree..

If you are hybrid as happy with whim as with wit,
with analogic as with logic —well: how shall I
describe you? One of Jane Goodall’s monkeys,
maybe and TREE is just Gymnasium for you.

Now: get those three thinkers in a class room
together, Larry Linear, Birdy, and Monkey Mind;
and wonder: will they just get along?

What would it take for collaboration?

Mere Representing, is what I’m doing here.
Map making. Tell me: how do you do it?
Think-out from scratch? From node to
limb to branch to twig? . How do you
manifest your own macular
conceptions” & then
embodiment your
“new ideas.”?

We can swap map-talk
& maps. Or what's
a college for?

xxxooo, Sam