Never again was the right lesson. Germany learned it so well that it struggles to see the war Russia is already waging in Europe.

Pope Leo's AI encyclical and the claim that only religion can ground human dignity. A secular reply: dignity is not found or God-given, but a courageous self-binding.

The most advanced AI reasoning models collapse catastrophically at complexity thresholds — without knowing they have collapsed. They continue, confident and fluent, while the substance is gone. This is not a technical problem. It is a philosophical one. And Socrates saw the decisive limit 2,500 years ago: reasoning without the capacity to recognize its own failure is not reasoning. It is simulation. The mirror does not know that it is reflecting.