According to Justi Andreasen, modern culture trains us to sit still while images move.

We watch concerts, scroll feeds, wander museums like tourists in a graveyard of dead objects. But something older is waking up.

That’s why 250,000 people flood Comic-Con every year, sewing costumes to step inside stories instead of just consuming them. It’s why immersive experiences are exploding. Even Spider-Verse is a myth about stopping spectatorship and taking the leap.

Jonathan Pageau calls it what it really is: participation.

Because the highest form of culture isn’t entertainment.

It’s belonging.