[metaloha]

You're over-thinking it, dark-noodz. Truth is subjective, opinionated, and bears no relation to facts. It is an abstract concept that serves a lot of different emotional purposes - from manipulation by corporate windbags all the way back to how you perceive yourself.

We often conflate "truth" with "comfort" or "validation" because we're human.

When companies want their employees to be "truth seekers", they generally expect employees to act responsibly, honestly, and either willing to go with the flow (truth for the company) or challenge the norms (truth for the individual) - good luck figuring out which one they actually want at any given moment in time.

What is truth? It's what I tell myself to feel better about what I see around me. It changes all the time, reflects and contradicts itself under different circumstances, and rarely matches up with other people's perception of truth.

Truth is what companies and individuals use to justify their actions - not facts, but truths.

It's funny, but you can replace every "truth" above with "lie" and it will remain a truth and a lie.

The only paragraph you wrote that was truthful was the second-to-last one.