Brian's Daily Blog

Ode to the entertainment industry

We find ways, as often as possible, to break up our stale existence. The biggest realm used is entertainment. We displace our life, and emmerse ourselves into the world & the characters in movies. We take on hero personnas in video games. We consume our minds with drivel TV, happily zombified until the earth cycle repeats.

Why do we do this? Are we not happy with our world, our lives? I think so. The success of the entertainment industry proves this. The industry gives what the public wants, so it is a MIRROR of our desires. Thus several things could be surmised by looking at this.

We don't want a perfect world without good & evil. Why else do we immerse ourselves into Harry Potter's world? Or when we watch some action flick, we get a surge of adrenline ourselves, another drug. Notice most these worlds we immerse ourselves in do contain both good & evil, or some major CONFLICT stating that that is basic to our psychi. So we don't really want a world without both, we merely desire the excitment of the core conflict. Good & evil are always fighting to take domination, but this shows the world will always try to balance and have both.

So it seems we enjoy types of fundamental conflict, excitement. Most of us don't get that in their daily lives. Our lives are off balance, and sometimes movies & games give us that balanced world to emmerse ourselves in.

posted by B.C. @ 11:26 AM