Better to have an error to see than to be blind to truth

Everyone confuses a smooth and enduring narrative with clarity.  Custom glazes over the eyes with assumptions that endure unchecked to the point that even inherited truth is not understood, as the mere reflex of expectations goes down that same unobstructed path. It would have been better to have held the wrong narrative about the underlying reality. At least then in the ensuing accident one would have had the chance to learn.

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