Deliberate opacity in communication is endemic to modern speculative communities

Evidence

Greenspan’s fame outside the banking world has been achieved partly thanks to his famous Delphic interventions, which often had the explicit intention to confuse rather than to illuminate—a practice that, as we will see over the course of this book, has become endemic in modern speculative communities. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 393

Categorization

• SEED: A promising angle: Greenspan as the patron saint of productive ambiguity — how intentional obscurity builds speculative authority vs. transparency destroying it.
• XREF: connects to: Mutual acknowledgment of shared fragility binds speculative communities together — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 27; Speculative communities embrace uncertainty through strategic unknowing rather than anticipation or control — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 329; Communication succeeds only through shared contextual beliefs that cannot be fully formalized (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mutual acknowledgment of shared fragility binds speculative communities together — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 27; Speculative communities embrace uncertainty through strategic unknowing rather than anticipation or control — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 329; Communication succeeds only through shared contextual beliefs that cannot be fully formalized (+2 more)