The circumstances are real. Nobody's arguing that.

What's worth sitting with is how reliably they appear exactly when movement becomes possible. How airtight the explanation always is. How reasonable it all sounds... To you, to other people, even to someone trying to challenge it.

Smart people build the best cages. The architecture is sound. The reasoning checks out. And it works perfectly at keeping you exactly where you are.

You built the waiting room. You designed the chairs. You're the one who keeps showing up to sit in it... Waiting for circumstances you constructed to finally change.

Chapter 4 is yours. It asks a harder question than the circumstances do.