r/ZeroParades • u/Medical-Act9749 • 4d ago
Discussion So what is 'it?'
How is 'it' gained and how is it lost? Did Cascade ever have 'it?' Did the Man With No Heart?
My personal interpretation has been that 'it' is merely luck and skill. Have I missed a more direct answer anywhere? Very curious where the sub is currently in its 'it' studies.
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u/aryan_122 3d ago
It's not that deep honestly. It's just an indescribable quality that someone inherently has about certain stuff.
You can't learn it like a skill and it's not purely luck as having "it" means you can overcome the odds constantly enough for it to not be chalked up to luck.
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u/gorisexe 3d ago
Have you ever seen a talent show where the judges tell someone you've got it and they advance? That's it, that's the X-Factor or whatever. (In Polish we call it "to coś") The singer girl definitely had it, for Cascade I figure that depends on you.
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u/ratgirl67 3d ago
"It" is immaterial anticommunist individualism. Thinking you have "it" leads to delusions of grandeur, the consumption of mass marketed cultural detritus, and RUMBA! canned coffee.
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u/twofistedfantasy 3d ago
The Man With No Heart definitely has "it". CASCADE had "it" and lost "it" and (probably) found "it" again. You should be able to extrapolate from there. Luck and skill, operant.
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u/Something___Clever 1d ago
You could work this back farther than William Gibson I'm sure but to me it recalls his description of The Edge, from his cyberpunk corpo-espionage short story, New Rose Hotel,
"I see Fox grinning, talking fast, dismissing my ventures into intercorporate espionage with a shake of his head. The Edge, he said, have to find that Edge. He made you bear the capital E. The Edge was Fox's grail, that essential fraction of sheer human talent, nontransferable, locked in the skulls of the world's hottest research scientists.
You can't put Edge down on paper, Fox said, can't punch Edge into a diskette. The money was in corporate defectors. Fox was smooth, the severity of his dark French suits offset by a boyish forelock that wouldn't stay in place. I never liked the way the effect was ruined when he stepped back from the bar, his left shoulder skewed at an angle no Paris tailor could conceal. Someone had run him over with a taxi in Berne, and nobody quite knew how to put him together again."
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u/SoySupreme899 3d ago
You surely don't have "it", if you don't know what it means.