Good for you, and experience, and longevity, along with the decades of watching America go through different stages of growth and failure tempers your approach to understanding what is really important in life. This is America, your goal is to reveal yourself as you move between the decades.
Desire the truth, you just revealed yourself, why is that important to you. What was true in one century is just a phase of understanding your place in the world. Then it is gone, because that kind of truth was only what you looked for. It was something that made you feel better about yourself. But you never understood that you only have so many decades in this world, and the truth is actually meaningless when you can only see yourself.
Thats fine, you are young, you cannot see everything, you have not lived the decades to understand, that the truth never mattered in the first place.