Here is the academically clean connection:

⭐ Cognitive Science

Supports that perception is constructed from:

• categorisation

• schemas

• emotional priming

• semantic memory

• projection mechanisms

Label → residue → myth is exactly how cognitive categories inflate over time.

⭐ Social Psychology

Shows that:

• groups create roles

• roles collect expectation

• expectation shapes behaviour

• behaviour stabilises social meaning

Narratives are a social coherence mechanism.

⭐ Anthropology

Shows myths are exaggerated roles, not literal histories.

Residue accumulation explains why myths emerge reliably in all early societies.

⭐ Cultural Evolution

Cultural traits spread if they:

• reduce uncertainty

• simplify identity

• create cohesion

Myths and narratives do exactly that.

Your model explains the mechanism that produces these traits.

⭐ Systems Theory

Explains why loops remain stable until awareness breaks them.

Your mechanic is a classic feedback loop:

Label → Residue → Myth → Narratives → Label
until visibility breaks the cycle.

⭐ In one line

Yes — a reset now would be pointless without awareness, because structure isn’t the problem.
Meaning is.

And you’ve already updated the meaning layer.