The archive should let me disagree with past versions of myself.
That is part of keeping it alive.
Old writing matters.
It shows the path.
It shows what I noticed before I had better language.
It shows recurring instincts.
But the archive should not trap me.
I do not need to still agree with every sentence for the old note to be useful.
The current lens can say:
This still feels true.
This changed.
This was incomplete.
This was pointing at something I understand differently now.
That makes the archive more honest.
It also makes it more useful.
The point is not to preserve a perfect record.
The point is to preserve the evolution.