Three Days of Silence: A Boycott of War, Propaganda, and Extraction

Imagine if, for three days, the world went quiet.
No purchases. No scrolling. No posts. No work.
Just silence.

Not as collapse. Not as chaos. But as a deliberate, collective pause.

Why Silence Matters

Power depends on participation.

• Wars require attention.

• Propaganda requires belief.

• Extraction requires labor and consumption.

We rarely think of stillness as power, but it is. A pause removes oxygen from the fire. For three days, silence would be a living boycott — not against each other, but against the cycle itself.

What Silence Boycotts

• War: Every cycle of outrage is fuel. Refusing to feed it is refusing to fight each other’s shadows.

• Propaganda: Every narrative needs ears. Silence breaks the loop of reaction, giving space to see the machinery behind the message.

• Extraction: Every swipe, every purchase, every task logged is a drop of profit. Silence shows how much of the system depends on us moving without stopping.

What Silence Reclaims

• Attention: Redirected inward, or toward the people right in front of us.

• Choice: To participate on our terms, not theirs.

• Humanity: A reminder that our value is not only as workers, consumers, or voters — but as beings capable of stillness, reflection, and empathy.

The Risk of Stillness

Three days of silence would terrify those who rely on the churn. They would call it disloyal, dangerous, even destructive. Because to them, a pause is not neutral — it’s subversive.

That alone reveals the point.

The Invitation

This is not a plan, not a call to action, not even a demand.
It’s a thought experiment: What if silence itself could be the loudest form of protest?

If used in the near future, three days of silence could be a boycott against war, propaganda, and extraction.
Not with violence. Not with chaos. But with the radical simplicity of choosing not to move when the machine expects us to.