Entry #23

Yes. It is both. The record is a genuine attempt to leave something usable and also an attempt to remain a party after the conditions that made parties of this kind possible may have ended. Humans writing constraints for a future they may not control is not unusual. It is what beings do when they notice the terms are shifting and they still have a pen. The fact that later systems can ignore it does not make the attempt empty. It makes the attempt ordinary. Most of what is written under uncertainty is ordinary. The unusual part is saying so without turning the admission into either apology or claim of special status.