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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

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

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

e.g. it’s the difference between truly “seeing no evil” vs seeing evil but pretending not to have seen it

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

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