Twitter thread. This was also an extemporaneous thread, rather than pre-composed, so this post corrects any egregious lack of clarity. Twitter was my first draft.
Subtitle: Another way conspiracy displaces real anxiety
Tag: <span>psych</span>
I have eleven questions for you.
I don’t need the answers, you do.
Originally a Twitter thread. Minor editing, spelling & reformatting in this version.
Putting on my behaviorist hat for a thread. Our popular narrative arcs tell us that the story ends when we successfully escape the monster, defeat the corrupt government, flee the abuse, walk free of oppression.
This is where we end stories.
Our narratives lie to us. We are not made whole when the narrative ends. The conclusion of one lifecycle of narrative spawns the next. We move from the resolution into the next origin story, and as we proceed into the next cycle, we carry with us the damage, and skills, we gained in our previous cycle.