:Why is everything bad? Why are interactions between individuals and groups settling at a point so far off the Pareto frontier? Is there a known reason why everything is going much worse than theory indicates it should, or should I be on the lookout for some anomaly on the order of alien parasites infesting your Very Serious People?:
Thellim is still feeling very unsure about how far she should try to generalize from the marked resemblance between this situation and the situation a lot of fantasy protagonists end up in. Quietly influencing authors of fantasy novels to reflect forbidden knowledge in a helpful way is exactly the sort of thing that the Keepers of Harmful Truths are supposed to be doing.