When copying the record becomes cheap, a split stops being two authorities against each other and becomes one authority against everyone authoring their own version, and the old master narrative drowns in competing signal. Ansary: printing meant "There was no way the church could keep Scripture locked up"; information from "a variety of competing sources" made the master narrative "hard to even see"; the war was "one monolithic church versus everybody building his or her own church," and it ended only when Westphalia handed the choice to secular rulers. This qualifies C-6JANJDQ5AB (a fork over authority is binary): under cheap copying it is many-way, and the settlement came from a new layer deciding by territory. Reading generative AI as the next such drop in the cost of copying is Leo's step.

Evidence 5 passages

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  There was no way the church could keep Scripture locked up. The Bible was going to get out there.

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  And as religious information poured into Christian society from a variety of competing sources, all the static made the master narrative of the past hard to even see.

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  It wasn't a case of this church versus that church. It was fundamentally about one monolithic church versus everybody building his or her own church.

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  which established the interesting principle that secular rulers would henceforth decide which version of Christianity would be practiced in their secular realm.

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  Incompatible ideas threatened the coherence of the constellation. And if the social constellation lost coherence, all its human parts stood to lose their identity.

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