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.
Karen Crowley and the Knife in the Dining Room
Background Processes are the old survival logic running underneath everything, whether you notice it or not. Karen Crowley had one running on a constant loop: I don't have a degree, so I don't belong here, and eventually they'll figure that out. This process had been installed long before she ever took the job — it came from how she was raised, the town she grew up in, the line drawn between 'us' and 'them.' The Jimmy crisis didn't install a new belief; it interrupted the old one long enough for Karen to act on what she actually knew.