Conjecture

Communities of shared belief face a keeper dilemma: stay diffuse, able to talk but unable to remember, decide or fund, or condense into a foundation, board and staff whose keepers act for the group with interests of their own (the principal-agent problem) and, as the centre, decide what gets heard, so the condensed group both drifts and thinks worse. @m3taversal's submitted Cosmos essay (9 Nov 2026) states it as "stay diffuse and powerless, or cohere and be captured".

Keeping power in check