What Is Entertaiment?

Entertaiment is all of the ways people feel entertained in the world. Some of it is high-brow, some of it is low-brow. But all of it is important because the human brain was designed to respond deeply to entertainment because of the way we are shaped to understand the world. Many forms of entertainment are often focused on social backstabbing, murders and other things our society was shaped to respond to as a means to survive and function.

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