Reached for: Gadgets
“A switch does what I ask, first time, every time. People don't.”
Command over devices supplies the certainty that people never did, and each new mechanism widens the gap between having influence and having to be known. The preference was set by a family that neglected and refused in equal measure, so intimacy went unpractised and machinery took the vacancy. What it asks for is an exchange with something capable of refusing.
Daedalus, maker of the labyrinth, the wings and the moving statues, whose devices always worked and whose people did not survive him. The form implies a task of tending what cannot be engineered.
- Essence
- The Sealed
- Rule
- Being close to someone meant being available to be dropped
- Substance / Activity
- Devices, controls, technology, anything operable at a distance
- Archetype
- Daedalus
- Emotional theme
- Fear of being known
- Behavioural pattern
- Mastery over mechanisms substituted for closeness; distance maintained as a condition of safety
- Family dynamic
- A neglectful and rejecting family in which intimacy was never modelled or permitted to develop
- Core wound
- Being close to someone meant being available to be dropped
- Exit
- Practising the untaught skill with something that can say no
What is the "Reached for: Gadgets" pattern?
Command over devices supplies the certainty that people never did, and each new mechanism widens the gap between having influence and having to be known. The preference was set by a family that neglected and refused in equal measure, so intimacy went unpractised and machinery took the vacancy. What it asks for is an exchange with something capable of refusing.
What does "Reached for: Gadgets" sound like when it shows up?
A switch does what I ask, first time, every time. People don't.
What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Gadgets"?
Daedalus, maker of the labyrinth, the wings and the moving statues, whose devices always worked and whose people did not survive him. The form implies a task of tending what cannot be engineered.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.