It’s rare because it’s the actual answer™

The principle under the whole house, named in seven words. The truth isn’t rare because it’s strange — it’s rare because it’s the actual answer. The real answer sits on the one patch of ground both tribes vacated: the spot you can only stand on if you care more about being right than being claimed. That costs you both teams, so almost nobody pays it — so the true thing ends up looking exotic when it’s really just unowned. This is not the shrug in the middle (the shrug avoids the tension); it’s the opposite — holding two true things at once, on purpose, no flinch (see pro-life, all the way down). It’s why honesty reads as alien in a world trained on spin: the brain-ache is just truth arriving with nothing softening it. The record is the arbiter — argue the record, not the jersey. (His coin.)