Aren't you entertained enough?
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OK! lets start with definitions.
First one by the Longman dictionary:
Then lets see what is entertainment and media industry: (vault.com)
The media and entertainment industry consists of film, print, radio, and television. These segments include movies, TV shows, radio shows, news, music, newspapers, magazines, and books.
The top 10 media and entertainment companies are The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Direct Group Holdings (DIRECTV), Time Warner Inc., NBC Universal, National Amusements Inc., CBS Corporation, Viacom Inc., News Corporation, and TEGNA Inc.
Back to the question: Aren't we entertained enough? Why is this industry still on the rise? What's the purpose?
I guess Wikipedia's definition might help: (which is based on the Oxford English Dictionary's definition)
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.
"holds the attention" and "gives pleasure". It should give you something (pleasure) when it takes something from you (attention). And it makes lots of money for those who create it, so why not push a bit further every year to gain more money. But is that all? all this just for money? (yeah, some people even kill for that much money but still...)
What they gain is our attention and our money. But which is more valuable? I go for attention.
Because by having our attention, they can sell us more products, tell us what to believe and what not to believe, shape our culture, change our opinion and direct us where they want.
How can we counter all these effects? How can we form our own set of believes and opinion in this situation?
I guess we can't (but not in a bad way). All the information we get, will affect our opinion but it's important to do a research and find the possible motives of the provider. I think While watching movies and TV series, we should pay much attention to the message, small messages hidden in action and drama and think why it was there. The easiest thing to do is to examine the product placement. Another one is to find out what the villain (super hero) is associated with.
So there are ways to counter the bad effects (to be affected) but it needs effort and time, which might change and entertainment activity into a hassle. And that's the thing in this life; all the good things need a good amount of effort
and I guess that's the whole point:
To make a great thing you need to put a great deal of effort and time into it (but no necessarily money)
The Donkey may well be the ultimate all terrain delivery vehicle.
Equiped with self drive. Though the navigation system might not work as intended.
At the end of the day, auto pilot usually brings them home.
Yeah, I was thinking about that, the home is set, but there's no input for destination.
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That is not a flaw.
Though I believe that all God's creations are perfect (except those who have the option to choose), but we live in a time that the trusted sciences says human body efficiency is about 25%, like just the work counts and all the heat is a waste.
So depends on your perspective...
I agree with you, that is why not having an input for destination, in the case of a Donkey, is not a flaw.
Catching pop music on the radio, I find it is often easy to hear the agenda behind the song. Often it is something that degrades my society. But it is eerily sneaky how the more the song is heard, the more the mind accommodates, until it is easy to forget that distasteful meaning you caught in the first place.
That donkey is so awkward with his pointy ears and big nose. So very awkward he is adorable.
Though sometimes not too easy to resist (to listen to)
And why is it mostly degrading stuff in popular media? It makes people more easy to handle?
Donkeys are underrated, people search for cute cats, lovely dogs, beautiful horses, but not adorable donkeys.
That's a good question. I think it does make us easier to handle. The less intellectual we are, the harder it is to resist.
I think I will add donkeys to my mental list of adorable creatures.
You answer this already yourself: effort and patience (with the nonsense even). Transformation is to take what is set in the physical and turn into something that speaks of God's infinite wisdom. This is impossible to do with dead things (products divested of life-force or creative impulse).
Money is actually neutral in and of itself (as an energetic currency). That is why it can help good people have good lives in a bad world. (Destitute folks tend to turn rough and ugly.) The more abstract money becomes (in currencies determined by the lucky few and procured from unknown benefitters) the "dirtier" it becomes and then if forms like an electro-static amorality around your higher knowledge.
The problem is not merely money, but materialism and atheism. These beliefs turn the noble and the beautiful (and adorable donkeys) into useful and functional.