- Though it is not enshrined or protected the right to say nothing is extremely important. It is only when we preserve this right is there a chance that the things that are being said increase in value. - It takes the pressure of saying something for the sake of saying something. Like with participation only if there is a true choice of not participating is the participation of value. ---- Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying. - Jenny Odell in [[How to Do Nothing]] Peter Block talks of a similar idea in his invitation conversation in [[Community]]