this is the best time, and this is also the worst time. Everyone seems to live a happy life, and they are all in happiness. As soon as we turned on the TV, the jokes of bloggers, spoof videos and the jokes of the host all made us laugh. Even if there is a little trouble and sorrow occasionally, you don't have to worry about it, and you don't have to think about the reason. It won't be long before we forget it. The only thing you need to do is laugh with the whole world.
whether we like it or not, pan-entertainment has become an irresistible trend. When the right to speak is transferred from a small number of social elites and intellectuals to the general public, it is destined to be a historical necessity. In the materialistic commercial society, people are impetuous, and the public does not need the literary appreciation of the spring snow, but the entertainment enjoyment of fast food. As an animal that can keenly capture the commercial atmosphere, mass media has grasped the psychological needs of the public and used them. Serious topics can't interest the public, so they are told in a relaxed and humorous tone; Literature and art are too obscure, so it is replaced by various entertainment programs; The essence of life is too heavy, so it presents bowl after bowl of chicken soup for the soul ... You won't feel sad, because you don't really feel anything.
To paraphrase the statement about lightness and heaviness in The Unbearable Lightness of Life, then life itself is heavy, and entertainment is light. Pan-entertainment can easily turn heaviness into lightness, but in this process, what heavy price have we paid?
Holderlin once said, "Man is full of hard work, but he still lives poetically on the earth." Living poetically, once upon a time, was the yearning of our generations. However, the reality is that how many people can figure out the existence of poetry from life? How many people know the true meaning of poetry and distance? Is it just a trip to spend money, get in the car and take pictures?
Qing Wu-style poems, which are popular on the Internet, say, "The white clouds in the sky are really white, really, very white, very, very white, especially white, extremely white, thief white, absolutely white, ah-".Can this also be called poetry? This is almost completely meaningless nonsense, but why is it popular? Just because it is nonsense, just because it has no meaning, just because it perfectly dispels the meaning with the mentality of entertainment to death. Poetry, under the ravages of entertainment storm, lingers on. We are gradually losing the ability to feel beauty. I don't know why beauty is beauty, but it is drifting away in the wave of pan-entertainment.
entertainment to death? Not yet, some people say so. Indeed, entertainment has brought us unprecedented happiness. It has penetrated into all aspects of our lives, and we have long been inseparable from it. Besides three meals a day, it is what we live by. But after all, it is an illusion. Anesthesia can get us for a while, but it can't anesthetize us for a lifetime. After waking up, we still have to face the reality alone, which is the biggest paradox of entertainment.
don't take it seriously! Don't indulge! Entertainment is not life, although it will steal your life like a thief. Don't forget why you think and why you laugh.
But will we really be ruined by what we love?
I don't know. I just don't want this pessimistic prediction to come true, and I don't want entertainment to proudly say to life one day, "I will take its place."