# The Politics of Cosmic Silence

Silence supports multiple hypotheses whose consequences diverge sharply: hiding, observing, quarantining, and finally declaring.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: intelligence-otherness

## Path

1. **Dark Forest Hypothesis** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-hypotheses-dark-forest-hypothesis--sfoc-cosmologies-dark-forest-cosmos`
2. **Dark Forest Cosmos** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-dark-forest-cosmos--sfoc-hypotheses-zoo-hypothesis`
3. **Zoo Hypothesis** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-hypotheses-zoo-hypothesis--sfoc-cosmologies-zoo-cosmos`
4. **Zoo Cosmos** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-zoo-cosmos--sfoc-hypotheses-earth-quarantine-hypothesis`
5. **Earth Quarantine Hypothesis** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-hypotheses-earth-quarantine-hypothesis--sfoc-cosmologies-quarantine-earth`
6. **Quarantine Earth** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-quarantine-earth--sfoc-programs-quarantine-protocol`
7. **Quarantine Protocol** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-quarantine-protocol--sfoc-events-quarantine-declaration`
8. **Quarantine Declaration** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-events-quarantine-declaration--sfoc-events-disclosure`
9. **Disclosure**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
