{"id": "card_n_23818bc5d8fe", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Authority", "body": "A man asked a passing stranger where to build his house. The stranger pointed to a place by a river. The man built there. Soon the rains came, and the river rose, and the house was lost. The stranger had never built a house, only walked past many.\n\nAsk yourself: Whom did you ask, and what had they built?\n\nRED — be honest about whose authority you are leaning on. Expertise in one field is not expertise in yours.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "url": "", "ref": "almanac_rhetoric_appeal_to_authority", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "authority_trust", "information_encoding", "RED"], "connections": [], "author": "operator", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "witness", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "6f0dd51ecfa71dbfc2832749f6da41a8335fcc6f632fb16ffab5cf18ebe4590f"}