Neutral is contextual. If you consider social interactions, they can be described as an interaction where signal is identified against noise - given a specific

Neutral is contextual. If you consider social interactions, they can be described as an interaction where signal is identified against noise - given a specific context. Its natural then for a context to exist such that the signal and noise are inverted, or neutrality is lost. Not everyone can afford a mea culpa. That said this is precisely the kind of interesting dynamic that is worth testing out to see what sort of affordance it creates, and how the medium changes to incorporate mea culpas.