When Kint’s leaders ban whistling, claiming it disrupts “collective cognitive harmony," they accidentally unleash a bureaucratic nightmare. Citizens who used whistling to regulate mood must turn to humming, which soon becomes a louder, stranger public nuisance. Committees form, arguments rise, and the ban spreads from whistling to humming to anything “melodically adjacent.” By the end, Kint learns that controlling joy is far more chaotic than joy itself.

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