PhronesisCompulsive opinion-broadcasting (COB) is defined here as the systematic drive to transmit one's views on any available topic regardless of solicitation, situational relevance, or relational appropriateness. We identify COB as a wrong attractor W in the dynamical sense: a stable basin the system falls into under anxiety, identity-pressure, or social uncertainty, in opposition to the ground state S^0 of calibrated selective disclosure.
The paper introduces the Position-Transmission Architecture (PTA) as the cognitive-behavioral engine that operationalizes COB — generating unsolicited opinion delivery as a mechanism for influence-seeking and identity assertion. We further describe the Open-Inquiry Foreclosure Basin (OIFB) as the downstream effect: a structural closure to genuine curiosity about others' views, produced by the continuous forward-pressure of one's own positions.
Nine propositions formalize the dynamics of this attractor, its social costs, its lock-in mechanisms, and the conditions for return to S^0. The return is not accomplished by suppressing views but by learning to hold them internally until they are called for — a recalibration that restores both relational influence and epistemic openness. We conclude that views shared rarely carry more social and epistemic weight than those broadcast compulsively, and that this asymmetry is the fundamental stability property of ground state.