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It's not clear to me that you're disagreeing substantially with what I think or what the essay says. Culture is not about aesthetics, it's about interacting with other humans - those who even pay lots of attention to the aesthetics (e.g., me) are very much in the minority.
I'm saying that there are both aesthetic and non aesthetic reasons driving the production of media. If we were to halt media production, I think that would lead to aesthetic concerns despite the large preexisting body of works, but I don't think that those concerns are the only or necessarily even the primary reason for continued media production.
Well, yeah. We're still not disagreeing at all.
Then I think one of us is misunderstanding the content of the article. I think I do disagree with some of the content, particularly given this comment. If I had found the reverse of that observation to be true, I would have a very different position regarding the value of creating more works of fiction.
I think there are differences you're regarding as important that I'm not regarding as important - I could disagree with a lot of the details, but I think the broad thrust of it is both original and good. I'm still digesting what I think of the essay and mentally writing a Rocknerd post about it.