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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally posted by Four Fingers
Well, personally, I think us western people consume too much entertainment. If 30 years ago, hardly 500 writers could support themselves by writing, today more than 10,000 writers support themselves this way. This also applies to other forms of entertainment. In Japan, people wait on the streets for 3 days, to be the first to catch a new Nintendo game.
I think this is unhealthy for society. All people do is work by entertaining people, make money, then go home and spend the money on entertainment. What happend to important things that are dull and not entertaining? Like space travel, like curing diseases, and finding new energy sources.
So, ideally, I'd like to see people say, "I want to run an envelope factory, so people can use mail and be productive." Not as deck as saying, "I want to be the head of a music band," but certainly more useful (and more realistic).
Of course, I am a complete hypocrite 'cause I want to be a film director 
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back in the days before electricity... you went to bed relatively early... and you got up really early... entertainment was a live medium and since it wasn't commonplace was quite expensive. even the wayang kulit of indonesia was entertainment for the king.
entertainment is about having disposable time, from TV to books, video games to movies... it's all about doing something when you aren't working.
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