Rock, Paper, Scissors
Rock: our basic, inherent nature and needs.
Paper: (mostly) pre-modern technologies that address those needs: food, conversation, hugs, a good book or meaningful, healthy movements , e.g. work, play, exercise.
Scissors: high-technology solutions to our basic needs and problems: NETFLIX, cars, maple bacon doughnuts and anything with a touchscreen.
Paper covers (read: “soothes”) rock, by definition above.
And yes, scissors cuts paper, i.e. makes it look stupid and primitive and inefficient, even though paper works totally fine most of the time. (Paper is a wonderful technology, by the way.)
Rock breaks scissors, but probably only after scissors sits next to rock, distracting it and tricking it into creating an account by presenting an interesting article headline, which the rock knows is probably just clickbait, but the rock is really enjoying a mocha frappachino in an overstuffed chair, procrastinating doing real work, so why not? (As an unusually literal example, I could tell you a story about an ordinarily mild-mannered friend who actually went completely Office Space on an ink jet printer in his driveway after his patience ran out.)
Seems like the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is itself broken when a computerized laser scissors with soft-touch handles gets to play and starts seriously messing with the rock. Rock may need to get better at recognizing scissors for what they are instead of being fooled by the fancy Kickstarter video presentation that scissors put together. Rock should probably rethink its strategy against scissors, because scissors is not even playing the same game.
Our basic, biological, bedrock nature can be tricked and hacked for our short-term convenience and enjoyment, but the fact is “scissors” are brittle and can’t solve every problem in the long term. They’re an adjunct, not a substitute for “paper”. “Paper” is natural and flexible—a set of holistic approaches that developed with “rock” over a much longer period of time than “scissors” have had. “Paper” is pretty reliable, even if it seems a little boring or tedious at times.