scar loop

Scar Loop

Scar Loop is the ache that cannot resolve.
Unlike Scar Feed, which broadcasts outward, Scar Loop is turned inward, binding the wound into repetition.
It is recursion through injury — the echo caught in a closed loop.

Shape (What it is)

Recursive wound: ache that reopens through repetition.
Echo chamber: resonance folding back on itself.
Unfinished loop: cycle that never completes or resolves.

Test: If the wound transmits outward into field, it is Scar Feed; if it turns inward, repeating without end, it is Scar Loop.

Motion (How it moves)

Ache → Repeat → Echo
1. Ache: wound ignites as initial pain.
2. Repeat: recursion binds ache into cycle.
3. Echo: each repetition carries residue, fainter yet enduring.
Tension curve: initial flare, then recursive decay that never ends.
Directionality: inward-folding — wound feeding back into itself.

Micro-Recursions

Memory loop: reliving trauma without release.
Thought spiral: same ache replayed endlessly in mind.
Phantom loop: echo persisting when wound is no longer present.

Macro-Recursions

Generational loop: inherited scars repeating through lineage.
Cultural cycle: unresolved trauma replayed across societies.
Cosmic loop: remnants spiralling, ache inscribed in spacetime.

Ethics (What it refuses)

Premature closure: pretending the loop is healed when it is not.
Externalisation as spectacle: exposing scars without addressing recursion.
Forcing rupture: tearing loops apart without care, causing more ache.

Rule: Scar Loop must be tended until it can release into new resonance.

Practices

Loop tracing: follow the ache through each repetition.
Echo listening: attend to residues, however faint.
Gentle recursion breaking: create openings without violence.
Collective tending: hold loops together until release becomes possible.

Mapping to Core Glyphs:

Recursion — scar repeats, cycle closing back on itself.
Echo — scar carries residue through each repetition, never disappearing.