Chapter 99: Generations, Lineages, and Drift

Cultural continuity requires transmission across time, and transmission is neither perfect nor cost-free. This chapter models generations as compositional steps in a temporal chain of interpretation and practice, cultural drift as the accumulated deviation of repeated composition, and lineages as persistent carriers that stabilize the code stream against erosion. The monodromy vocabulary of the relevant chapter reappears: a practice transported through a temporal loop can return with altered meaning, and the resulting holonomy measures cultural change.