Is entertainment wasting our time?

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The movies we watch, the songs we listen to actually make us who we are. Thier influence on us is kind of can be insidious or benefiting depending on what you get entertained by.

Take someone who gets entertained by watching hillarious videos of people doing stupid things like lighting fireworks on their bodies is entertaining and kind of pointless. Normally no one would try that but we don't know that some of those stunts are staged for fame. We end up watching these videos for hours learning nothing earning nothing and wasting our time.

I remember watching one episode of an animated series BOONDOCKS where they taught how to defend yourself from assault. Now I was entertained and at the same time I learnt something.

The trending genre of music is Trap music or Mumble music. When you watch their music videos on channels like MTV Base or TRACE all you see is drugs, nudity, strong language or drug abuse. This same channel would show a popular hit song like THis is America by rapper Childish Gambino. Now this song although entertaining is packed with lots of messages about racism and social media addiction

There's this trend now on Instagram where I'm from it's called giveaways. Notable personalities give away free cash by putting their followers through some challenges some are academical some aren't. In the end people are rewarded.

I think what you get entertained by will determine if you're wasting your time or not