← codex
#136

Reached for: Race Tracks

I'm holding out for the free ride and the big win, and I keep company with others who are too.

It runs as a chase after the easy score, a compulsive angling for the free ride, the big win and the Easy Street outcome, with a pull toward the company and ambience of others cut from the same cloth. The scheme feels like shrewdness; underneath it is a set of near-antisocial values absorbed from a demoralising, selfish family that modelled the shortcut over the honest cost. What it asks for is one thing built rather than won.

The Archetypal Form

Autolycus, the light-fingered rogue and snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, forever working the angle for an easy purse and the company of fellow chancers. The form implies a task: to earn one thing honestly and find it holds.

The Algorithm
Essence
The Compelled
Rule
The honest path is for suckers; I'm holding out for the score.
Classification
Substance / Activity
The free ride, the big win, easy money, the fellow chancers
Archetype
Autolycus
Emotional theme
Near-antisocial values absorbed as shrewdness
Behavioural pattern
Compulsive angling for the free ride and the big win
Family dynamic
A demoralising, selfish, near-antisocial-values family system
Core wound
The honest path is for suckers; I'm holding out for the score.
Exit
One thing built rather than won.
Frequently asked
What is the "Reached for: Race Tracks" pattern?

It runs as a chase after the easy score, a compulsive angling for the free ride, the big win and the Easy Street outcome, with a pull toward the company and ambience of others cut from the same cloth. The scheme feels like shrewdness; underneath it is a set of near-antisocial values absorbed from a demoralising, selfish family that modelled the shortcut over the honest cost. What it asks for is one thing built rather than won.

What does "Reached for: Race Tracks" sound like when it shows up?

I'm holding out for the free ride and the big win, and I keep company with others who are too.

What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Race Tracks"?

Autolycus, the light-fingered rogue and snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, forever working the angle for an easy purse and the company of fellow chancers. The form implies a task: to earn one thing honestly and find it holds.

This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.

Decoded2times