There is what happened.
And then there is everything your mind tells you about what happened.
The second part arrives remarkably quickly.
Someone doesn’t answer your message.
A client sends three unusually terse words.
You see a headline.
Your bank balance drops.
Someone looks at you oddly.
A politician makes a speech.
A video appears on X showing tanks being moved down a motorway at night.
Before you’ve established anything approaching the facts, an entire world has been constructed.
They’ve lost interest.
Something’s wrong.
War is coming.
I’m going to lose everything.
They know something we don’t.
The operating system has already spawned a process.
$ ps aux | grep narrative
FEAR 3881 91.7 THEY KNOW SOMETHING
ANGER 3884 87.2 THIS IS DELIBERATE
MEMORY 3890 63.8 THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS
FORECAST 3896 99.4 HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
None of these processes necessarily describes reality.
But they are consuming resources.
Time to kill them.
$ killall narrative
NOT POSITIVE THINKING
KillAll Narrative does not mean convincing yourself that everything is fine.
Sometimes everything is not fine.
People lie.
Institutions fail.
Companies screw you.
Governments do terrible things.
Partners betray one another.
Wars happen.
Illness happens.
Money runs out.
The purpose isn’t replacing a frightening story with a comforting one.
That’s just installing different fiction.
The objective is simpler:
Stop confusing what you know with what your mind has added.
That distinction sounds obvious until you begin observing yourself in real time.
Then it becomes astonishing.