[Chickensoup]

So you advocate complete myopia and avoidance of all forms of entertainment? Seems kind of retarded to me. The fact is there’s good and bad entertainment, TV, movies, music and books. I think people should use their ability to discern and pick and chose the stuff they like. Sticking your fingers in your ears keeps the good and the bad out, using the channel changer only keeps out the bad.

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it sounds like you believe that being entertained by moving shapes in some form of a rectangle is important. it is far from important. discernment is learned in many areas of life. Watching television and film is ephemera.

[discostu]

Relaxation is important for the human psyche, if we don’t give the brain a chance to unwind it snaps. And entertainment often inspires. Many people working in the technology industry today, providing you with things like the computer you’re reading this from, became interested in their field because of TV shows and movies. In fact many of the devices of our life were thought up for entertainment first. If you have a tablet computer thank Star Trek, it was there first. Cellphone? Thank Star Trek again. We’re on a Batman thread, do you know why cops have so much equipment on their belt? Yeah the Batman utility belt inspired people to try something, something which eventually contributed heavily to the combat webbing our soldiers use. Ephemera tends not to be as ephemera as people like to think.