As a professional industry, Hollywood is probably the worst offender when it comes to being so obsessed with itself that it genuinely can’t tell when it’s doing

As a professional industry, Hollywood is probably the worst offender when it comes to being so obsessed with itself that it genuinely can’t tell when it’s doing something in service of pandering to and perpetuating its own weird culture. I kind of look at this in the same way as the fact that so many movies or TV shows can’t help but eventually have a plot where someone makes a movie or a TV show, maybe at a stretch a stage production. And, somehow, all the characters know a whole lot about stage productions.