Analyst
Sees clearly.
Profile: 9/10
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Reality Contact
Reality Contact keeps the system from confusing aliveness with intoxication. It is not pessimism. It is pressure-tested perception.
Diagnostic question
Can the person perceive what is actually there?
The anti-woo dimension: constraints, incentives, power, timing, risk, bodies, money, enforcement, and consequences.
High
Looks for actual load-bearing constraints and can distinguish physics from mood.
Low
Lets intensity, myth, or preference substitute for contact with what is real.
Shadow
Cynicism, sterile realism, and premature surrender.
Practices
How this signal trains.
- Ask what is physically, legally, economically, or socially load-bearing.
- Separate real constraints from stale conventions.
- Name the cost of a move before falling in love with the move.
Role resonance
Roles where this signal often runs high.
Shadow involvement
Failure modes that involve this dimension.
Bureaucrat
High Operator Function + Low Reality Contact + Low Valence
Process without purpose. The Ossifier is driven by fear; the Bureaucrat is driven by the spreadsheet after everyone forgot what the spreadsheet was for.
Fantasist
High Seam-Sense + Low Reality Contact
Possibility without physics. Everything is possible until the invoice arrives.
Cynic
High Reality Contact + Low Participatory Play + Low Awe
Physics without possibility.
Captive Worldmaker
High Worldmaking + Low Reality Contact + Low Valence
Myth without correction. The story becomes more important than the people inside it.