What are the different dishes we are served these days to satisfy our appetite for entertainment. We are very well aware of the ingredients that go into making of ‘entertainment’ cuisine. We know that we are served a lot of variety. For every ingredient we have like a hundreds shows. What about the quality? Well definitely improving with each passing day.
As hunger for the better and more consistent means of entertainment pervades, we would be served delicious food for entertainment. There are times when stale and rotten food is offered but now we also have the power to reject it. All modes of entertainment have started churning out food that is friendly to our digestive guts and also brain activity. However, still be aware what you feed your senses.
Is Entertainment only eye candy? What about the rest of the senses, what about their indulgence? If we go by the popularity of the entertainment news and paparazzi photographs, we might be surprised how voyeuristic people have become. Yes people have literally become obsessed with Hollywood and the glamorous showbiz industry, pushing paparazzi to invade the privacy of celebrities and cashing on off limits material.
Hollywood stars and their personal lives has become a world-wide obsession. The bling and shimmer of the glamor world has caught everybody’s fantasy. People imitate celebrity behavior blindly and end up either hurting themselves or others. It has to be ingrained into the society that entertainment is just a part of mass culture and not the heart and soul of it. We should work on developing other spheres of society as well and not concentrate wholly on the attractive yet elusive lifestyle.
Before we write about the prevailing standards, it is better that we all ask ourselves, what we demand from the world of entertainment? Have our own standards become too low or too high? Obviously the answer to this is subjective and is based on the perception of each individual. However, if we analyze the standard of today’s entertainment then we can assess if what we ask for is too low or too high?
These days the standard is definitely higher than it was before. The music that people want to listen to, movies and television they want to watch, books they want to read, etc are all scripted in coherence with the mindset of the people. Moreover, people these days are so caught up with their lives that they would not spend much time on something substandard. The distinction between masses and classes is slowly decreasing and so it is in the entertainment industry.