[giraffe_lady]

Once we started thinking of creative works simply and only as material consumed for entertainment this was the natural and maybe only endpoint.

But even bad art is an expression of human experience, and interacting with it an act of human connection. Maybe this distinction will become more clear and relevant, or maybe we'll be successfully convinced that it doesn't exist at all.

Either way though wanting to be entertained with no regard for the human costs of the entertainment is an understandable impulse but one that we should be prepared to fight in ourselves. Otherwise why not just watch a bloodsport? Likely more entertaining than AI-chum sitcoms or whatever.

[scyzoryk_xyz]

Came here to seek out this comment - difference between art and entertainment. Someone who makes the latter in an industry might have had the former eroded out of them.

But haven’t we been here before with all the other “new” mediums before?