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In Reply to: It's enough to make you run down a busy street screaming that films posted by tinear on March 15, 2007 at 14:17:34:
... prefer escapist entertainment.
I could rant and rave about the necessity under corporate capitalism to alleviate the tedious nature of the worker drone lifestyle, but who would want to listen to me?
Not even me!
People like to escape to a funnier, sexier, more pleasant place. A place where people can be in control of their lives, and I can understand that completely.
What I do tend to dislike is that what might be called political art is criticised for its demand that you think and because it can be used as propaganda, whilst escapist art is not, despite it almost exclusively being propaganda or at least a numbing against the painful realities of life.
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I think the idea of escapism has been grossly abused. I think it died long time ago together with that image of a poor NYC seamstress who cries in the movie theater over some sad ending, before returning to her tiny room with two pair of stockings - one on her, one drying on the clothline. O'Henry... really... doesn't really exist in modern life. People just go for fun and entertainment.
Perhaps a curious question, but from time to time I watch the WWE, although not much now that the characters seem so half hearted, but that's another story...
Anyway one night, Vince McMann, the chairman and founder, I think, of the company was giving one of his "wind up the audience" speeches and he came out with something along the lines of "people like me are rich because we provide people like you with entertainment to brighten up your boring dull lives with your boring dull jobs".
Just as Caesar could have done at The Coliseum perhaps.
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