Finding Nothing But Ourselves

Thus we do build up a defining story about ourselves, organized around a sort of basic blip of self-representation. The Blip isn’t a self of course, its a representation of a self (and the blip on the radar screen for Ellis Island isn’t an island, its a representation of an island). What makes on blip a me-blip and another blip just a he or a she or it-blip is not what it looks like, but what is is used for. It gathers and organizes information on the topic of me in the same way other structures in my brain keep track of information on Boston or Reagan or ice cream. And where is the thing your self-representation is about? Its wherever you are. And what is this thing? Its nothing more than and nothing less than, your narrative center of gravity … they are magnificent fictions.