I think video may have arrested or retarded our development as a species, everyone takes their cues from video entertainment, and it's all incestuous (references upon references, little originality, and that's just conceptually, there's even less originality if you focus in on the acting.), people learn how to behave not from those around them (including live theater), but from these unchanging, static things. Their movement is illusory, and in this illusion people take on attributes of the illusion. They behave in "generic" ways, because they are all reading from the same script, and are all seeing the same videos, more or less. Want to meet someone unique, meet someone who maybe hasn't seen very many videos. Someone like Grandma, or Grandpa, or a backwoods person. Books are different, because they are a framework the reader can drape their vision of the world upon, the people in the same book will walk and talk differently depending on the readers preconceived notions of how people walk and talk.