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Ontological Forensics // Situations

“Situations aren’t real.”

This statement should alarm you only if you have ever believed the opposing one: that situations are real. They are not. They merely pretend to be.

A “situation” is the narrative compression the mind performs when overwhelmed by too many variables to hold simultaneously. Instead of acknowledging the swarm of micro-events, power vectors, historical leftovers, bodily biases, local gravitational accidents, and the lingering emotional consequences of a disappointing breakfast, the mind simply says:

“This is the situation.”

Which is to say:

“I’m tired of thinking.”

Situations are a labor-saving hallucination masquerading as ontology.

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1. The False Promise of Coherence

Observe any alleged “situation” and you will notice it always arrives pre-packaged with:

• a problem,

• an implied cause,

• an implied agent,

• an implied resolution,

• and a timeline short enough for narrative digestion.

This is suspicious.

Nothing in the material world comes pre-arranged for narrative comfort except maybe rotisserie chickens, and even those require interpretation. Real conditions do not present themselves as “situations.” They present as:

• noise,

• partial information,

• unmotivated behaviors,

• uncertain motives,

• misheard sentences,

• and at least one email you still haven’t opened.

The “situation” is not what is happening. It is the compression algorithm the subject applies to avoid drowning in what is happening.

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2. The Bureaucratic Nature of Situations

Situations are the HR department of reality. Their job is to reduce the complexity of lived conditions until they can be filed, categorized, and punished.

If you doubt this, recall how often the phrase
“Let’s assess the situation”
really means:

“Let’s carve away all inconvenient truths until what's left is small enough to blame someone for.”

Situations exist only to create closure where none exists.

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3. The Panic Behind the Curtain

The very need for a “situation” presupposes a world too overwhelming to process directly. A situation is a coping mechanism the mind disavows. It pretends to be objective, neutral, and factual while hiding the trembling child of cognitive overload behind it.

If situations were real, they would not need to be declared. Nobody says:

“This is a tree situation.”
“This is a gravity situation.”

Those are real things.

But people say:

“We have a situation.”
which translates to:
“Something is happening and I refuse to experience it raw.”

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4. Situations as Bad Metaphysics

Situations require:

• a beginning

• a middle

• an end

• and a moral

Which is the structure of a parable, not of an event. They are existential fanfic.

To claim a “situation” is real is to claim:

• time has a shape,

• consequences are narratively just,

• and the people involved have consistent character arcs.

All of which, upon examination, are lies.

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5. The Final Forensic Blow

Situations fall apart under scrutiny because they rely on the stability of something even more questionable:

circumstances.

And as we shall demonstrate in the next audit,
circumstances aren’t real either.

Situations therefore cannot exist, because their supporting metaphysical scaffolding collapses the moment you touch it. What we call “a situation” is merely a shadow cast by the mind’s refusal to let chaos be beautiful.

Next audit target: “Circumstances.”