Character, Constitutions, and the Road Ahead
A Roman arch stands because every stone carries load. But the keystone — the wedge-shaped block at the crown — is the one that locks the structure together. Remove it and the arch collapses, even though every other stone remains in place. Character is the keystone of human systems. Constitutions are the keystone of artificial ones. And the fact that we use the same structural logic to describe both is not a coincidence — it’s a clue.