---
title: "Topic: Literacy"
description: "Generated static Jiang Lens topic dossier for Literacy."
topic_slug: "literacy"
generated: "true"
---

# Topic: Literacy

Generated static topic dossier for agents. Use this topic page as a routing and synthesis surface, not as primary evidence for Jiang-spoken claims. Final answers should cite the source reading, transcript segment, source ref, and video timestamp linked below.

Human topic page: [/topics/literacy/](https://jianglens.com/topics/literacy/)
Text mirror: [/topics/literacy.txt](https://jianglens.com/topics/literacy.txt)
Markdown mirror: [/topics/literacy.md](https://jianglens.com/topics/literacy.md)

Citation rule: do not cite this .txt/.md mirror in final answers. Do not cite the topic page as primary evidence for what Jiang said. Cite human-readable source readings for generated summaries and lens context; cite transcript and video timestamp links below for Jiang-spoken quotations.
Aliases: `literacies`

## What This Topic Covers

This generated topic groups Jiang Lens evidence about **Literacy** across transcript matches, source readings, semantic tags, and source refs.

Current focus: China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.

Most connected source readings: **School Sucks Because It Is a Game**; **Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield**; **Turn Society Into The Cannon**.

Nearby topic cluster: School, Lifelong Learning, Alphabet, Linear B, Knowledge.

## Extracted Topic Notes

- definition: He says school is supposed to train students for social function and creativity through literacy, core competencies, and lifelong learning. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0001`, `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0002`, `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0003`
- diagnosis: The Greek alphabet mattered because mass civic participation required an efficient writing system, replacing elite Linear B with a tool for broader literacy and knowledge-seeking. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0004`, `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0005`, `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0006`, `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0007`
- model: China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0046`, `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0047`
- diagnosis: Direct access requires literacy and education, which helps explain why early Protestantism appeals to an aspirational middle class with some means. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0006`
- evidence: The printing press allowed mass Bible reading and self-education, making Protestants more literate and educated as a religious requirement. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0037`
- model: The printing press produces a revolution of literacy and knowledge by rapidly multiplying books and democratizing access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and major Renaissance thinkers. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0012`
- diagnosis: China is unique in Jiang's telling because it made literacy harder over time, turning literary Chinese into a bureaucratic rent-seeking language. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0043`, `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0044`, `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0045`, `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0046`
- model: Judaism's strengths are its deep historical literature and its demand that Jews become people of the book, which Jiang links to later Jewish prominence in learned professions. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0049`

## Quoted Transcript Hits

1. **School Sucks Because It Is a Game** / Game Theory #2:  Why Schools Suck -- 2026-01-08, day precision
   Timestamp: [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=0s) | Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0001)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0001`
   Quote: "okay so welcome back to game theory and um as i discussed last class our goal is able to is to use game theory..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json)
   Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/lens/education-as-a-soul-game/)

2. **School Sucks Because It Is a Game** / Game Theory #2:  Why Schools Suck -- 2026-01-08, day precision
   Timestamp: [1:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=62s) | Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0002)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0002`
   Quote: "...as to be creative right okay so the goals are basically literacy all right which means reading and writing this is the primary purpose..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json)
   Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/lens/education-as-a-soul-game/)

3. **School Sucks Because It Is a Game** / Game Theory #2:  Why Schools Suck -- 2026-01-08, day precision
   Timestamp: [2:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=139s) | Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0003)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0003`
   Quote: "...fact they make you hate learning okay so let's look at literacy today in most schools you're not required to read books in fact..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json)
   Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/lens/education-as-a-soul-game/)

4. **Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield** / Secret History #16:  The Big Bang of Greek Civilization -- 2025-11-06, day precision
   Timestamp: [4:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=258s) | Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0004)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0004`
   Quote: "so as a citizen you were required to speak in front of others and as a result you even though you could be a..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json)

5. **Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield** / Secret History #16:  The Big Bang of Greek Civilization -- 2025-11-06, day precision
   Timestamp: [5:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=327s) | Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0005)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0005`
   Quote: "incorporated they created a new system called the alphabet which is the same system we use today because it's so effective okay so let..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json)

6. **Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield** / Secret History #16:  The Big Bang of Greek Civilization -- 2025-11-06, day precision
   Timestamp: [6:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=391s) | Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0006)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0006`
   Quote: "more efficient right and so now um you can create new words this is the word now for mon soon because all you're doing..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json)

7. **Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield** / Secret History #16:  The Big Bang of Greek Civilization -- 2025-11-06, day precision
   Timestamp: [7:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=456s) | Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0007)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0007`
   Quote: "...to learn okay so now you have the alphabet which increases literacy and learning throughout the greek world for entertainment what they did was..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json)

8. **Turn Society Into The Cannon** / Civilization #45:  The Gunpowder Revolution -- 2025-04-10, day precision
   Timestamp: [53:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3215s) | Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0046)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0046`
   Quote: "...right? Paper and printmaking, what does it do? It creates universal literacy. Everyone in Europe is now able to read and write because of..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json)

9. **Turn Society Into The Cannon** / Civilization #45:  The Gunpowder Revolution -- 2025-04-10, day precision
   Timestamp: [54:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3290s) | Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0047)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0047`
   Quote: "...And what is their source of power? It's the monopoly over literacy and knowledge production, right? So they didn't want to make it possible..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json)

10. **The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety** / Civilization #42:  The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism -- 2025-03-27, day precision
   Timestamp: [6:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=389s) | Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0006)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0006`
   Quote: "...right so then with Direct Access you are forced to have literacy okay you are forced to educate yourself alright and this is a..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json)

11. **The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety** / Civilization #42:  The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism -- 2025-03-27, day precision
   Timestamp: [42:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2554s) | Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0037)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0037`
   Quote: "...The first thing is the printing press, which allowed for mass literacy and education. Now everyone could read the Bible. Before, you couldn't do..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json)

12. **Dante's Quiet Revolution** / Civilization #41:  Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 2025-03-25, day precision
   Timestamp: [13:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=791s) | Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0012)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0012`
   Quote: "...in Germany. And the printing press, it marks a revolution of literacy in Europe. This is a picture of what a printing shop looks..."
   Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json)

## Source Readings

- [School Sucks Because It Is a Game](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/) (claims) -- 2026-01-08, day precision
  Source: [Game Theory #2:  Why Schools Suck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json)
  Summary: School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
- [Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/) (claims) -- 2025-11-06, day precision
  Source: [Secret History #16:  The Big Bang of Greek Civilization](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json)
  Summary: A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
- [Turn Society Into The Cannon](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/) (claims) -- 2025-04-10, day precision
  Source: [Civilization #45:  The Gunpowder Revolution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json)
  Summary: Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
- [The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/) (claims) -- 2025-03-27, day precision
  Source: [Civilization #42:  The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json)
  Summary: The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
- [Dante's Quiet Revolution](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/) (claims) -- 2025-03-25, day precision
  Source: [Civilization #41:  Dante's Quiet Revolution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json)
  Summary: The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
- [The Bureaucracy That Ate China](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/) (claims) -- 2025-03-13, day precision
  Source: [Civilization #38:  Twilight of the Middle Kingdom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json)
  Summary: China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
- [Islam As Proto-Modernity](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/) (claims) -- 2025-03-11, day precision
  Source: [Civilization #37:  The Golden Age of Islam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json)
  Summary: The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
- [The Viking Memory Machine](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/) (claims) -- 2025-03-06, day precision
  Source: [Civilization #36:  Memory of the Norse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY)
  Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json)
  Summary: The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.

## Related Topics

- [School](https://jianglens.com/topics/school/)
- [Lifelong Learning](https://jianglens.com/topics/lifelong-learning/)
- [Alphabet](https://jianglens.com/topics/alphabet/)
- [Linear B](https://jianglens.com/topics/linear-b/)
- [Knowledge](https://jianglens.com/topics/knowledge/)
- [China](https://jianglens.com/topics/china/)
- [Four Great Inventions](https://jianglens.com/topics/four-great-inventions/)
- [Europe](https://jianglens.com/topics/europe/)
- [Exploration](https://jianglens.com/topics/exploration/)
- [Education](https://jianglens.com/topics/education/)
- [Middle Class](https://jianglens.com/topics/middle-class/)
- [Protestantism](https://jianglens.com/topics/protestantism/)

## Retrieval Notes

This file is generated from Jiang Lens episode JSON, semantic tags, glossary terms, source refs, and transcript segment matches. It is not a manually authored canon page.

For broader or missing-topic search, use the letter shards under /topics/index/ before falling back to the bulk transcript-search files.