Inductor
Your attention resists change, storing energy in invisible fields that shape what you become.
If you could hear this, it would create a Black Hole...
Your attention resists change, storing energy in invisible fields that shape what you become.
Every change in current creates a field that resists that change—and every shift in your attention creates a system designed to keep you exactly where you are.
You store charge between plates of metal and dielectric, holding potential energy in an electric field—just like the platforms store your attention between sessions, building up tension until you return.
You store charge between two surfaces that never touch—just like the platforms store your attention between scrolling sessions that never end.
Every system bleeds energy into the void—including you, scrolling through the feed at 3 AM.
Resistance isn't futile—it's the only thing standing between you and total conductance.
In circuits and in consciousness, resistance determines how much energy becomes heat, how much signal becomes noise, and how much of you dissipates into the network.
You are not the electricity—you are the wire, and the current flowing through you was never yours to control.
The difference in potential that drives electrons through circuits is the same force that pulls your attention across digital networks—and someone else controls the terminals.
In physics and surveillance capitalism alike, potential energy measures not what is, but what could be—the stored capacity for work, extraction, and conversion.