There’s a familiar move happening again. Take a complex system. Find the point of tension. Collapse it into a person. Name them the problem. Call it truth. And for a moment, it feels satisfying—like clarity has arrived. But it hasn’t. It’s just compression. The current wave of commentary about Sam Altman follows this pattern almost perfectly. A long list of claims, stitched together into a single narrative: inconsistency becomes dishonesty, ambiguity becomes intent, governance breakdown becom...