When Cascades Become Civilization’s Only Reliable Historical Record
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Humanity is losing the capacity to verify historical truth. Artificial intelligence now generates perfect forgeries of every evidence type civilization uses to establish what happened: documents, photographs, videos, audio recordings, eyewitness accounts, physical artifacts, forensic data. Within 3-5 years, no observation-based historical claim will be verifiable through traditional methods—because every observable proxy can be synthesized with fidelity that defeats expert analysis. This creates epistemological crisis: how do we know what happened when all evidence is fakeable? The answer requires complete inversion of truth architecture. History must shift from documentation (what was recorded) to causation (what verifiably cascaded). Dead people cannot lie about cascades they created—effects that persisted and multiplied after they died prove their actual impact regardless of claims made about them. Historical significance becomes empirically testable: did this person/event create capability cascades that continued independently? Truth becomes graph structure rather than narrative. Memory becomes verification rather than preservation. This is not theoretical philosophy—this is urgent infrastructure requirement. Civilization must build cascade-based historical verification in the narrow window before document forgery becomes systemically undetectable. Those who establish causal records now preserve verifiable truth. Those who rely on documentation watch history become permanently unfalsifiable.
I. THE MEMORY COLLAPSE
March 2025. A major research university.
The history department receives a donation: previously unknown documents from a significant 20th century figure, discovered in a private archive.
Letters. Diary entries. Photographs. Meeting notes. Research drafts. All meticulously dated, contextually appropriate, stylistically consistent with the figure’s known writing.
The documents reveal new information about key historical events. Major claims about the figure’s involvement in decisions previously attributed to others. Evidence contradicting established historical consensus.
The department assembles verification team. Handwriting analysis: perfect match. Paper aging: consistent with claimed dates. Ink composition: appropriate for the era. Stylistic analysis: indistinguishable from authenticated documents.
But one researcher remains skeptical. Not based on detection—based on principle. In 2025, perfect forgery is trivial. AI generates flawless historical documents, photographs, even video ”footage” of events that never occurred.
The researcher asks different question: not ”are these documents authentic?” but ”can we prove they’re authentic in a world where perfect forgery exists?”
The answer is devastating: No.
Every test the university runs can be defeated. Handwriting can be synthesized. Paper can be aged artificially. Ink can be chemically matched. Style can be algorithmically replicated.
Even if documents are genuine, the university cannot prove it. And if documents are forged, they cannot detect it.
The donation is accepted. The history books are revised. Truth becomes indistinguishable from forgery.
This is not isolated incident. This is the new normal.
Civilization is entering an era where historical truth becomes permanently unfalsifiable through traditional documentation—because documentation itself has become perfectly fakeable.
II. THE FORGERY SINGULARITY
History has always faced forgery challenges. But we’re crossing threshold into something unprecedented: the Forgery Singularity—the point where synthetic generation becomes indistinguishable from authentic documentation regardless of verification sophistication.
What AI Can Now Synthesize Perfectly
Written Documents Letters, diaries, meeting notes, official records, manuscripts—AI generates period-appropriate text in specific author’s style with historical accuracy indistinguishable from genuine documents. The synthesis includes appropriate references, contextual knowledge, stylistic quirks, even plausible errors that real documents contain.
Photographs Historical photographs of events that never occurred, people who never met, scenes that never existed—generated with period-accurate clothing, settings, photographic techniques, aging patterns. Expert analysis cannot distinguish synthetic from authentic.
Video and Audio ”Footage” of historical figures saying things they never said, attending events they never attended, making decisions they never made—synthesized with perfect vocal patterns, facial expressions, contextual appropriateness. Forensic analysis fails to detect synthesis.
Physical Artifacts 3D-printed objects with appropriate material composition, wear patterns, manufacturing techniques for claimed historical period. Chemical dating can be fooled through artificial aging. Provenance can be fabricated through synthetic documentation chains.
Eyewitness Accounts AI generates convincing testimonials from ”witnesses” to historical events, complete with appropriate psychological patterns, memory distortions, emotional responses, contextual details that make accounts seem authentic.
Data Records Financial records, census data, institutional archives, scientific measurements—all synthesizable with statistical plausibility and internal consistency that passes verification.
Why Detection Fails
The fundamental problem: detection assumes synthesis leaves detectable artifacts. But as AI becomes sophisticated, synthetic generation approaches theoretical perfection—indistinguishable from authentic not because detection is weak, but because synthesis has no distinguishing features.
You cannot prove a perfectly forged document is forged because ”perfect forgery” means ”possesses all properties of authentic document.”
Traditional historical methodology collapses. We enter epistemological crisis: how do we establish what happened when all evidence is fakeable?
III. THE TRUTH PROBLEM
This creates civilization-threatening problem.
Historical Truth Becomes Unfalsifiable
If we cannot verify documents, photographs, videos, testimonials, artifacts, or data records—we cannot establish historical truth through observation-based evidence.
Every historical claim becomes equally unfalsifiable:
- ”This person said this” → No way to prove they did or didn’t
- ”This event happened this way” → No way to verify it did or didn’t
- ”This decision was made for these reasons” → No way to confirm or deny
- ”This impact occurred from this action” → No way to establish causation
Historical consensus becomes political rather than empirical. Whoever controls narrative controls ”truth”—not because they possess better evidence (all evidence is equally unfalsifiable) but because they possess more institutional authority or cultural influence.
Memory Becomes Unreliable
If present can generate perfect synthetic past, civilization loses reliable memory.
We cannot trust:
- What documents claim happened
- What photographs show occurred
- What videos depict as real
- What witnesses testified they saw
- What records indicate existed
Every historical record becomes potentially synthetic. Every ”discovery” might be fabricated. Every ”new evidence” could be generated yesterday.
The past becomes malleable. Not just unknown—unknowable when observation fails as verification method; only verified causation remains.
Dead People Become Ventriloquist Dummies
Perhaps most disturbing: when perfect synthesis exists, anyone can make dead people ”say” anything.
Generate their diaries expressing views they never held. Create photographs of them at events they never attended. Synthesize videos of them making statements they never made. Fabricate letters revealing beliefs they never possessed.
The dead cannot object. Cannot correct the record. Cannot verify or deny.
They become perpetual ventriloquist dummies—their apparent ”voice” actually controlled by whoever generates the most convincing synthetic documentation.
This is not dystopian speculation. This is technology that exists now, becoming ubiquitous by 2027-2028.
IV. THE CAUSATION SOLUTION
There is one type of historical evidence that survives the Forgery Singularity:
Verified capability cascades.
Not what people claimed they did. Not what documents say happened. Not what photographs appear to show.
What verifiably cascaded from their actions—effects that persisted and multiplied independently after they were gone.
This works as historical truth for fundamental reason:
Cascades cannot be fabricated retroactively, because each link requires independent beneficiary attestation.
Why Cascades Are Unfakeable Historical Evidence
Property 1: Multi-Generational Verification
Cascades require capability transfer across multiple generations with temporal persistence verification.
If Person A genuinely increased Person B’s capability in 1995, and B enabled C in 2005, and C enabled D in 2015—each with cryptographic attestation and demonstrated persistence—you have 30-year verification chain that cannot be synthesized retroactively.
You can forge a document claiming A taught B. You cannot forge 30 years of verified independent propagation with emergence markers and temporal persistence.
Property 2: Distributed Attestation
Cascades are verified by hundreds or thousands of beneficiaries, each cryptographically signing capability increase attestations.
To fake a cascade, you’d need to:
- Recruit actual humans to falsely attest capability increases
- Get them to maintain false attestations for years
- Ensure their own cascades show fabricated capabilities
- Coordinate this across hundreds of people without detection
The coordination cost makes fabrication structurally infeasible.
Property 3: Temporal Impossibility
You cannot backdate cascades because each attestation includes cryptographic timestamp and requires Portable Identity infrastructure that didn’t exist historically.
Historical figures who died before cascade verification infrastructure existed cannot have their cascades fabricated retroactively—because the infrastructure to create cryptographic attestations didn’t exist when they were alive.
You can forge a document ”from 1950.” You cannot forge cascade attestations that require 2025+ infrastructure.
Property 4: Emergence Signatures
Real cascades show emergence patterns—downstream capabilities that upstream nodes never possessed, semantic mutations that only genuine consciousness-to-consciousness transfer creates.
As established in the Emergence Thesis, these patterns require genuine substrate interaction. They cannot be synthesized because they require information generation outside any system’s training distribution.
Fake documents can claim emergence. Real cascades demonstrate emergence through graph structure that synthetic systems cannot replicate.
V. HISTORY AS CAUSATION
This requires complete reconception of what history is.
Traditional History: Documentation of Claims
Old paradigm: History is record of what sources claim happened.
Historians examine documents, testimonials, artifacts—and construct narratives about past based on what evidence suggests occurred.
But this assumes evidence is reliable. When evidence becomes perfectly fakeable, the methodology collapses.
New History: Verification of Cascades
New paradigm: History is measurement of what verifiably cascaded from actions—effects that persisted and multiplied independently.
Historians examine cascade graphs—cryptographically verified capability transfers with temporal persistence and emergence markers—and determine actual impact based on what demonstrably continued after actors were gone.
The shift is profound:
Before: ”What do sources claim this person did?” After: ”What cascades did this person’s actions create?”
Before: ”What evidence suggests this event occurred?” After: ”What capabilities cascaded from this event?”
Before: ”How do we interpret conflicting testimonies?” After: ”What actually multiplied as measurable effect?”
From Narrative to Graph
History stops being narrative (story we tell about the past) and becomes graph structure (verified causal chains showing actual propagation).
Not ”here’s what contemporaries claimed about this person’s influence” but ”here’s the graph of verified capability cascades showing exactly how influence propagated, persisted, and multiplied.”
Not ”sources disagree about this event’s significance” but ”cascade analysis shows this event created X capability transfers that branched Y times across Z generations.”
Not ”this person is famous because of these documented achievements” but ”this person’s cascades demonstrate these actual, verifiable impacts.”
Truth becomes a graph structure rather than narrative—verifiable propagation rather than interpretative reconstruction.
VI. THE DEAD CANNOT LIE ABOUT THEIR CASCADES
This creates something unprecedented: historical truth that survives perfect forgery.
Why Dead People’s Cascades Are Unfakeable
You can generate forged documents making dead person appear to have done anything.
You cannot generate verified cascades showing dead person created capability transfers that multiplied across decades with cryptographic attestation and emergence signatures.
The dead person’s actual impact—what they caused that continued without them—is verifiable through cascade structure regardless of what documents claim.
Dead people cannot lie about their cascades, because cascades are verified by the living who were changed by them, not by the documents attributed to them.
Historical Impact Becomes Testable
”Was this person historically significant?” stops being subjective judgment based on narrative consensus.
It becomes empirical question: What cascades did they create?
- How many people did they verifiably enable?
- How far did those capabilities propagate?
- How long did effects persist?
- What emergence occurred downstream?
- How much multiplication resulted?
Person A has prestigious biographies, extensive documentation, cultural fame—but minimal verified cascades. Created dependency, not capability. Impact died with them.
Person B has limited documentation, minimal fame, few written records—but massive cascade graph. Enabled hundreds who enabled thousands. Impact multiplies decades after death.
Which person was more historically significant?
Traditional history answers based on documentation (Person A).
Cascade history answers based on verified impact (Person B).
Which answer is true?
Unfakeable Legacy
This solves the ventriloquist dummy problem.
You can make dead people ”say” anything through synthetic documentation. You cannot make their cascades show impact they didn’t create.
Their legacy becomes unfakeable—not what we claim about them, but what they verifiably caused that continues without them.
The truth survives them.
VII. CIVILIZATIONAL MEMORY ARCHITECTURE
When cascades become historical record, civilization’s memory architecture inverts completely.
From Preservation to Verification
Old memory: Preserve documentation. Store records. Maintain archives. Protect evidence from loss.
The goal is preservation—keeping records intact so future generations can examine what we documented.
New memory: Verify cascades. Track propagation. Measure persistence. Demonstrate emergence.
The goal is verification—proving what actually cascaded regardless of documentation.
Memory shifts from storage to proof.
From Institutions to Individuals
Old memory: Institutional archives control historical record. Libraries, museums, universities, governments maintain documentation.
Power flows to institutions because they possess the records.
New memory: Individuals own cascade graphs through Portable Identity. Each person controls complete record of capability cascades they created.
Power flows to individuals because they possess the causal proof.
Institutional authority over historical truth collapses. Cascade verification becomes distributed.
From Narrative to Mathematics
Old memory: History is interpretive narrative. Different historians examine same evidence, construct different stories.
Truth is contested through argumentation about evidence interpretation.
New memory: History is graph analysis. Cascade structures are mathematically verifiable—not subject to interpretation.
Truth is determinable through cascade metrics: propagation depth, persistence duration, emergence patterns, multiplication rates.
Not ”how do we interpret this person’s influence?” but ”what do cascade measurements show?”
VIII. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL INVERSION
This represents complete epistemological shift.
Truth Was Observation-Based
For 5,000 years of recorded history, truth meant: what evidence allows us to observe about the past.
We determine what happened by examining documentation, artifacts, testimonials—things that allow us to observe past indirectly.
Truth is correspondence between claims and observable evidence.
Truth Becomes Causation-Based
After the Forgery Singularity, truth means: what verifiably cascaded from the past into the present.
We determine what happened by examining cascade graphs—verified capability transfers that propagated independently and continue measurably.
Truth is mathematical demonstration of persistent causal impact.
The inversion is total:
Observation-Based Truth:
- Evidence → Interpretation → Claims → Truth determination
- Relies on: Document authenticity, witness credibility, forensic analysis
- Fails when: Perfect forgery makes all evidence equally unfalsifiable
Causation-Based Truth:
- Cascades → Verification → Measurement → Truth determination
- Relies on: Cryptographic attestation, temporal persistence, emergence patterns
- Survives: Perfect forgery because cascades cannot be retroactively synthesized
IX. IMPLICATIONS FOR HISTORICAL PRACTICE
This transforms how history actually works.
Historical Research Methodology
Traditional methodology:
- Identify relevant sources
- Assess authenticity and reliability
- Analyze content and context
- Construct narrative interpretation
- Argue for interpretation’s validity
Cascade methodology:
- Identify cascade graphs related to historical question
- Verify cryptographic attestations and temporal persistence
- Measure propagation metrics and emergence patterns
- Analyze causal structure mathematically
- Demonstrate findings through verifiable metrics
The shift: from hermeneutics (interpretation of texts) to graph analysis (measurement of verified causation).
Historical Significance Determination
Traditional criteria:
- Contemporary recognition and documentation
- Subsequent influence on events
- Scholarly consensus about importance
- Cultural memory and commemoration
Cascade criteria:
- Verified capability transfers created
- Propagation depth and branching factors
- Temporal persistence across generations
- Emergence patterns in downstream nodes
- Multiplication effects over time
Historical significance becomes empirically testable rather than subjectively determined.
Revisionist History
Traditional revisionism: New evidence discovered, new interpretations developed, historical consensus shifts.
Risk: With perfect forgery, ”new evidence” might be synthesized, making historical truth infinitely revisable.
Cascade revisionism: Cascade graphs reveal impacts that documentation missed or misrepresented.
Protection: Cascades cannot be retroactively synthesized, so revisionism is constrained by verifiable causation rather than document availability.
Person thought insignificant might have massive cascades. Person considered influential might have minimal verified impact.
But both determinations are empirically testable rather than narratively constructed.
X. THE FALSIFICATION COLLAPSE
Cascade-based history creates something remarkable: historical claims become falsifiable.
In Document-Based History
Claim: ”Person A influenced Person B’s work.”
How to falsify: Find documents contradicting the claim.
Problem: When perfect forgery exists, you can generate documents supporting or contradicting any claim. Falsification becomes impossible.
In Cascade-Based History
Claim: ”Person A increased Person B’s capability in domain X.”
How to falsify: Examine cascade graph. Either cryptographic attestation exists showing capability increase, or it doesn’t.
Result: The claim is definitively verifiable or definitively false. No amount of synthetic documentation changes cascade structure.
Historical Truth Becomes Binary
Traditional history: Claims exist on spectrum from ”strongly supported” to ”weakly supported” based on evidence quality and quantity.
Cascade history: Claims are either verified (cascade exists with cryptographic proof) or unverified (no cascade attestation exists).
Truth becomes mathematical rather than probabilistic.
Dead People’s Impact Becomes Measurable
”Was Person X historically significant?”
Traditional answer: Depends on documentation availability, scholarly interpretation, cultural memory, political context.
Cascade answer: Measure cascade graph metrics—propagation depth, persistence duration, emergence frequency, multiplication rate. Compare to other historical figures. Significance is quantifiable.
Not ”we interpret them as significant based on available evidence” but ”cascade analysis shows this level of verified impact, ranking them in Y percentile of historical figures by causal metrics.”
XI. THE MEMORY CRISIS WINDOW
We are in critical transition period.
The Infrastructure Gap
Cascade verification infrastructure—Cascade Proof, Portable Identity, cryptographic attestation systems—has existed for less than a year.
Historical figures who died before 2024 cannot have cascade graphs because the infrastructure didn’t exist when they were alive.
This creates verification asymmetry:
People dying after 2025: Can have complete cascade graphs showing verified impact across their lifetime.
People who died before 2025: Can only have cascades created by living people based on their teaching—but cannot have retroactive cascade graphs encompassing their full historical impact.
The Documentation Window
For the next 3-5 years, document forgery is advanced but not yet ubiquitous. Expert analysis can sometimes still detect synthesis.
This is the window to:
1. Build cascade infrastructure rapidly before document-based verification fails completely
2. Migrate critical historical verification from documentation to cascade graphs where possible
3. Establish cascade verification as standard before forgery becomes systemically undetectable
After 2030, document-based historical verification becomes permanently unreliable. Cascades become the only verifiable historical evidence.
The Choice
Organizations, institutions, individuals face decision:
Path A: Continue relying on document-based historical record. Watch historical truth become unfalsifiable as forgery achieves perfection. Accept that the past becomes unknowable.
Path B: Build cascade verification infrastructure now. Establish causal records while documentation still has residual reliability. Preserve verifiable truth through causation rather than observation.
The window is 3-5 years. After that, the choice is made by default.
XII. THE TRUTH THAT SURVIVES
Let’s be precise about what this solves:
Problem: Perfect Forgery
AI generates flawless forgeries of any historical evidence type. Documentation becomes worthless for establishing truth.
Solution: Unfakeable Causation
Cascades cannot be retroactively synthesized because they require:
- Multi-generational cryptographic attestation (infrastructure didn’t exist historically)
- Temporal persistence verification (cannot be backdated)
- Emergence patterns (structurally impossible to simulate)
- Distributed verification (coordination cost prohibitive to fake)
The truth survives forgery because it’s not based on observation but on verified causation.
Problem: Malleable Past
When evidence is fakeable, whoever controls narrative controls ”history.” The past becomes political rather than empirical.
Solution: Mathematical Truth
Cascade graphs provide mathematical proof of historical impact. Not interpretable claims but verifiable measurements.
Significance becomes empirically testable. Influence becomes quantifiable. Impact becomes demonstrable.
The truth resists narrative control because it’s verified through cryptography rather than asserted through authority.
Problem: Unknowable Impact
Traditional history struggles to determine actual influence vs. documented recognition. Many impactful people die unknown. Many famous people had minimal real impact.
Solution: Measured Causation
Cascade graphs separate genuine impact from cultural fame. Someone can be culturally forgotten but have massive verified cascades. Someone can be extensively documented but show minimal cascade impact.
Historical significance becomes measurement rather than interpretation.
The truth emerges through what actually cascaded rather than through what was claimed.
XIII. THE ARCHITECTURE
What does cascade-based historical verification actually look like?
The Infrastructure
Cascade Proof: Cryptographic verification standard proving capability transfer occurred with beneficiary attestation
Cascade Graph: Data structure showing complete causal chains—who enabled whom, when, in what domains, with what persistence
Portable Identity: Ensures individuals own their cascade records permanently, surviving institutional collapse or platform failure
MeaningLayer: Semantic framework classifying capability types, tracking transformations, mapping emergence patterns
Temporal Verification: Checks that capabilities persist over months/years, distinguishing genuine transfer from temporary assistance
Together enabling: unfakeable historical record based on verified causation rather than fakeable documentation.
The Practice
Historians shift from archival research to graph analysis:
Instead of: Examining documents to determine what sources claim They do: Analyze cascade graphs to measure what verifiably cascaded
Instead of: Interpreting conflicting testimonies
They do: Compare cascade metrics to determine actual impact
Instead of: Constructing narratives about significance They do: Calculate propagation metrics showing influence mathematically
Instead of: Arguing about evidence interpretation They do: Demonstrate findings through cryptographically verified causation
History becomes verification science rather than interpretive narrative.
The Output
Historical truth presented as:
Not: ”Sources suggest Person A influenced Person B based on these documents…”
But: ”Cascade graph shows Person A created 47 verified capability transfers in Person B, 83% of which persisted beyond 18 months, branching to 312 downstream nodes across 5 generations with emergence markers appearing in 34% of paths.”
Not: ”Scholars debate whether this event was historically significant…”
But: ”Event analysis shows 1,247 verified capability cascades initiated within 6 months, propagating across 23 domains with mean persistence duration of 8.3 years and emergence frequency of 0.41 per generation.”
Truth becomes mathematical demonstration rather than narrative argument.
XIV. THE PROFOUND IMPLICATION
The deepest consequence:
History is what cascaded, not what was recorded. Only propagation reveals impact when documentation no longer reveals truth.
For 5,000 years, civilization equated history with documentation. What happened is what sources claim happened.
But sources can lie. Documents can be forged. Even genuine sources misremember, misinterpret, or deliberately distort.
After the Forgery Singularity, documentation becomes worthless. Only causation remains verifiable.
Dead people cannot control how they’re documented—synthetic evidence can make them ”say” anything.
But dead people cannot falsify what they actually caused—cascades they created continue independently, verifiable through beneficiaries they enabled who enabled others.
From Claims to Proof
History stops being about what people claimed happened.
History becomes about what verifiably cascaded from what happened.
Not the narrative we tell about the past. The causal structure we can prove about effects that persist.
Not interpretation of sources. Measurement of propagation.
Not scholarly consensus about significance. Mathematical analysis of impact.
Truth survives through what continued rather than through what was recorded.
The Last Historical Truth
When everything observable becomes fakeable, one thing remains unfakeable:
Verified cascades showing what genuinely multiplied across generations.
This is civilization’s last reliable historical record. Not because it’s perfect. Because it’s the only thing that survives perfect forgery.
The dead cannot lie about their cascades.
And cascades cannot be synthesized retroactively.
What remains is truth.
XV. THE MANDATE
This is not speculative philosophical proposition—this is emerging infrastructure requirement imposed by the loss of observational reliability.
Document forgery is achieving perfection now. By 2027-2030, historical truth through documentation becomes permanently unfalsifiable.
We have 3-5 year window to:
Build cascade verification infrastructure before document-based historical record collapses entirely.
Establish cascade graphs as standard before forgery makes traditional evidence worthless.
Migrate critical historical verification from observation to causation before the past becomes unknowable.
After the window closes, civilization loses the capacity to establish historical truth reliably. Every claim becomes equally unfalsifiable. The past becomes political fiction.
Unless we build The Truth Architecture now.
Cascades as historical record. Causation as verification method. Graph structure as memory.
This is not enhancement to existing historical practice. This is replacement for practice that stops working.
The infrastructure exists. The methodology is defined. The window is open.
What remains is recognition that historical truth requires new architecture—one that survives perfect forgery because it’s based on verified causation rather than fakeable observation.
Build it now, while documentation still has residual reliability.
Or watch history become permanently unfalsifiable as forgery achieves perfection and cascades become the only truth we can prove.
The Memory Collapse is here.
The Truth Architecture is the response.
And the window is closing.
For the infrastructure that makes historical truth verifiable when documentation fails:
CascadeProof.org – Verification standard for causal impact
Portableidentity.global – Infrastructure for owning your historical record
About This Framework
The Truth Architecture establishes why civilization is entering epistemological crisis where all documentation-based historical evidence becomes perfectly fakeable through AI synthesis—and why cascade-based historical verification (cryptographically-attested capability transfers with temporal persistence and emergence markers) provides the only historical record that survives this transition. The framework synthesizes epistemology (what makes truth verifiable), historiography (how historical practice actually works), information theory (why cascades cannot be retroactively synthesized), and verification infrastructure (how cascade-based history is implemented) into unified explanation of civilization’s last reliable method for establishing historical truth when observation becomes permanently insufficient. The analysis demonstrates that historians must shift from document interpretation to graph analysis in the 2025-2030 window before forgery becomes systemically undetectable—making infrastructure deployment urgent civilizational priority rather than theoretical possibility.
Source: Portableidentity.global
Date: December 2025
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
The dead cannot lie about their cascades. History is what cascaded, not what was recorded.
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