An end to content

Sitting at the airport the other day, my mind wandered, as it does, to the subject of the economy. What, I thought, is not happening in the economy? How do things shut down, how to spigots turn off, and how does it get reversed?

Then I began to think: what is the role of content in this ecosystem: books, movies, etc.? What if the production of all narrative or content was banned or simply became unfeasible, what would become of us then? It's really the premise of a dystopian novel. Or is it really what we've already got: a bunch of crappy reality TV and cooking shows? Hmmmm.