Yea, what you’re talking about that a story has to “mean something” is what I’m getting at, that there isn’t an infinite amount of those theoretically. So if there aren’t infinite possibilities that “make sense” (like you said) then won’t we eventually run out of them (even if you think it would be far into the future)?
And if we will run out of possibilities that “make sense”, then isn’t it just a question of when?
Well, but you also have to consider that the kind of “sense” we’re interested in changes with culture, so in a way this might be more a sign of cultural stagnation (art managed to run out of big things to say since the last time there was a shift large enough to change the themes of most interest).
Yea, what you’re talking about that a story has to “mean something” is what I’m getting at, that there isn’t an infinite amount of those theoretically. So if there aren’t infinite possibilities that “make sense” (like you said) then won’t we eventually run out of them (even if you think it would be far into the future)?
And if we will run out of possibilities that “make sense”, then isn’t it just a question of when?
Well, but you also have to consider that the kind of “sense” we’re interested in changes with culture, so in a way this might be more a sign of cultural stagnation (art managed to run out of big things to say since the last time there was a shift large enough to change the themes of most interest).