[mosj3]

It's no more the age of info overload but sensory and stimulation overload.

All cultures have a handful of the same stories they replayed to themselves for thousands of years. Now we somehow believe all this bullshit "variety" is required to entertain ourselves. It isn't true and it will break down.

[icebraining]

You should tell that to the ancient Greeks, with their yearly competitions for new plays, and dozens of playwrights. Sophocles alone wrote a hundred and twenty plays, and he had a much smaller potential audience than someone writing for Netflix.