In the Balance

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. If you want to know what work is, try negotiating their implementation. Any creation introduced to custom’s house will require something similar, since to excite one expectation is always to disappoint others. And when the arrangement is quite new, when it confounds its idiom, the negotiation can be heartbreaking.

Of course, good ideas from Planet 9 are not so common. What generally makes innovation work is its fit into, onto or around some received pattern of values or rules or functions or expectations. The smooth and productive fitting together of new and old can be called a balance. Caught in the balance, however, there will still be casualties.