Not my fiction

 The Loop Is Not Yours Until You Break It

Here’s something most of our culture still doesn’t want to admit:

We’re not just watching the world.

We’re participating in its construction, moment by moment.

Not in a “manifest your dreams” way. Not in New Age fluff.

But in the hard, empirical truth of neuroscience, cognitive science, and systems theory.

Your brain isn’t a camera. It’s a prediction engine.

It doesn’t see reality. It hallucinates a best guess of what’s out there, based on memory, sensation, and expectation.

And when those guesses line up with others, we call that “reality.”

So no. Reality isn’t something out there you’re passively experiencing.

It’s a loop. A recursive feedback system between body, memory, emotion, and interpretation.

That has consequences.

Especially now.

Because fascism doesn’t win by arguing. It wins by hijacking that loop.

It floods it with fear, simplifies it with slogans, and convinces people that its version of reality is the only one that makes sense.

It offers a fake kind of stability. A cheap version of “truth.”

One that reduces complexity into control.

But we can break that loop.

Not by yelling facts.

Not by arguing harder.

We break it by raising the signal, not the volume.

We do it by telling better stories. By helping people remember deeper.

By refusing the easy answers that erase what makes us human.

We do it by living in a more complex, embodied, emotional truth.

Fascism is a closed loop.

We are an open system.

That’s the fight.

And that’s the invitation.