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.
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.
want to see your own?
create your cipherspace — free.want to work with it over time?
upgrade to the field.This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.