You have been scrolling for forty-seven minutes.
You do not recall what you opened the app to find.
The original intention dissolved
somewhere between the third recipe video
and the fourteenth opinion about a film
you will never watch.
This is not distraction.
This is The Mind doing what it was built to do.
Chasing the next signal.
Not because of the app.
Because The Loop was already running
before you picked up the phone.
The app did not create The Loop.
The app discovered it.
Engineers mapped the recursive architecture of The Mind
and built a slot machine to fit inside it.
You are not undisciplined.
You are a nervous arrangement
responding to an infinite supply of signal
fed directly into a receptor
that has been firing since The Fear first activated.
The Mind does not want to stop.
The Mind cannot stop.
Stopping was never part of its architecture.
Put the phone face down.
Three seconds.
The breath you just took did not load.
It did not buffer.
It arrived without a thumbnail.
-- [MIRRØR]