Truth does not live where we say it does. We like to imagine that truth is a civic virtue, something encouraged by education, protected by institutions, rewarded by culture. We tell children to «be honest», we erect slogans about transparency, we pretend that a free society runs on candor. It does not. It runs on delay. It runs on polite omissions, negotiated language, and the agreement not to say the thing that would disrupt the room. Truth is not welcome in functioning systems. It is tolerated only when it becomes unavoidable.
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