After the drama triangle, this might be the most important triangle I’ve ever stumbled across.
Because just like in drama, how you always have a victim, a persecutor, and a rescuer, in life we always have a question, a why, and a game.
And each role needs the others to exist. No victim, persecutor, or rescuer? No drama. That’s the secret to the triangle. Without the 3 points it’s not a triangle.
I see the same logic here with the question, the why, and the game. I’m thinking about calling this The Creator Triangle. I don’t think the full picture exists without each point.
Consider this a follow-up footnote to my Epsilon Theory: Unplugged essay here, specifically (Nobody Wants to Read Your S***).
Drama is like a prison. The only way you get out is to stop playing. Because even if you switch up your role, you’re still in that game.
Now, for an essay, I let the drama ride all the way through the end. It becomes part of the strategy.
But the broader takeaway, about being creative in an age of AI, and figuring out how to judge others and all the ways they’re using these new fangled tools, there’s no easy answer.
Which is also the point.
How to not have an answer without having drama. You can’t arrive there without attention - which is always a sign there’s a tension worth sitting with. That’s the role story plays tying the two together.
The Creator Triangle helped me figure it out.
AI presents us creatives with a weird world that’s baiting us into being either a victim, a persecutor, or a rescuer.
What I’m arguing is - you don’t have to be any of them.
AI and how we’re talking about it as a society right now, it’s the game, the question, and the why all at once - which is either terrifying or clarifying, depending on the day.
Because I’m planning to keep on creating things for the rest of my life, and, very candidly, I have no idea what AI will do next.
So this is how we co-exist. With each other and with the ever-changing themes of modern life.
Drama won’t go away, but I don’t intend to be stuck in that mess. I have too many ideas to work out. I have too much stuff I still need to create.
Largely because I can’t help myself (and neither can the rest of the Epsilon Theory: Unplugged writers).
Find your friends - we’re all around you, out here, trying to function.
Read the essay on Panoptica, and check out Ben Hunt interviewing me about writing, reading, and earning your s***:
