Stage VI: Reconstruction

“Let’s build something that can survive reality.”

And just like that, someone says it. Not loudly. Not in a keynote. Just a quiet statement from the back of the room. No hashtags. No press release. Just a whisper, almost embarrassing in its honesty. What if we stop pretending we can “secure” the supply chain by branding it into compliance? What if we assume, as a baseline, that the chain is compromised, not out of fear, but as a matter of systems engineering?