Background Processes
The fears, survival patterns, and old logic that keep running in your mind whether you notice them or not. Some were installed by you, some by your environment, some by people who raised you. This setting is not about stopping them — it is about whether you even know they are there.
John Reznikov and the JFK Forgeries
Background Processes captures the fear running silently underneath John Reznikov's entire reaction to being duped. John's background process was the belief that he simply could not be fooled — that his professional identity as an authenticator made him immune to this kind of mistake. That process kept running even as the evidence piled up against him, causing him to generate conspiracy theories instead of accepting what was in front of him. It was only when the FBI gave him a hard fact he couldn't process through the old logic that the background process finally lost power.