a near enemy to this story-mechanism is the rationalization of self-delusion as a reasonable response to life this makes as much sense as aspirational schizophrenia
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the observation of life must by necessity take the form of a story stories are limitless in their potential bc the author can always deus ex machina
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the difference is that a story must integrate everything chekhov gun style. nothing can be ignored. a delusion sees but ignores. it asks for ignore-ance of the parts that couldn’t be edited out
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e.g. it’s the difference between truly “seeing no evil” vs seeing evil but pretending not to have seen it
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a documentary doesn’t feel like a story because it contains so many random events that don’t make sense to a single story arc. too many unfired guns. it feels boring despite it actually being a tangle of multiple arcs
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it’s only a non-story relative to the highly processed single arc stories like an action movie the same way old books feel difficult to read relative to twitter threads
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just like documentaries feel boring relative to a marvel movie, life itself absent participation in the flow of a Greater Purpose feels boring relative to a documentary
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yet even the most boring monotonous endless scene of seasons passing year after year is a story that endless cycle fire, wind, water, and earth
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such a tangle of noise and random events. how can every grain of sand be in its “rightful” place? not even an infinity of stories could make relevant all of This true. because only One is needed this is the story of Life
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