# Hagiography Selects for Transferable Technique Not for Virtue ## Claim The figures a tradition amplifies are the ones whose approach can be packaged, and packageability is uncorrelated with whether the approach was good. A clean life with no method attached has no product, so the market does not carry it forward. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Scope & conditions - Applies to any tradition that produces exemplars and sells access to their method — religious, professional, entrepreneurial. Predicts that the least-cited exemplar may be the most exemplary. ## Links - [[Authority Architecture Not Doctrine Is What Religious Movements Inherit]] — extends; technique is what gets transmitted, and it carries the architecture with it - [[A Creator Demo That Lets the Product Describe Itself Is Not Independent Evidence]] — applies-in; the ministry selling the technique is also the source for its results - [[Institutional Success Is Not Evidence of Moral Legitimacy]] — evidence-for; the growth that validates the exemplar is what makes the technique saleable - [[3. Resources/MOCs/NAR and Charismatic Authority Critique MOC]] — the market mechanism underneath the MOC's authority-architecture diagnosis