The withdrawal of trust at the exact moment the problems became planetary

This is the fish. Everything in DEEP converges here and then passes through the net. The retreat into rooms is individually rational — verification by acquaintance genuinely works, at twelve people. The labelling laws are correct. The badges are honest. The private servers are kinder than the feeds. Every single move is defensible on its own terms, and the aggregate is a species dismantling its capacity for large-scale coordinated belief in the decade it needs that capacity most. There is no vil ...