The live split is whether "legitimacy came before cognition" is a historical sequence or only a functional split that modern states then fragment. Discriminator: an early public archive whose first durable records are forecasts of what an act will do, not rations, herds, or offerings owed to a god. Eanna's proto-cuneiform (Englund: over 85 percent administrative) and Göbekli Tepe's ritual enclosures are the named hosts; Chinese exams, hisba, and defter on the page are later embeddings of that office, not counterexamples to sequence. Henrich's WEIRD psychology is a different object. Until that archive is produced, the title and the "functional, not historical" hedge sit as two claims. Author dispositions stay author-owned.