The live split is whether "correcting the cosmology could delete the telos" left Nietzsche's shadow of God in the purpose slot — leftover morals occupying without the God who advertised them (Gay Science 108) — or a vacancy that countable proxies inherited. Discriminator: a named post-Christian budget contest in which leftover dignity-language and the metric disagree; see which one allocates. The Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720) descent claim, the Meiji Constitution's sacred emperor, and Hirohito's 1 January 1946 rescript are the recorded founding-myth analog, with the exact break that occupation unhooked the myth, not a telescope. Butterfield's mediations, not origins, would date the brittleness to Trent rather than to a first sin. Until the budget line is scored, Böckenförde and the paperclip are two leftovers. Author dispositions stay author-owned.