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How one can misspell "entertainment" as "culture"? And the answer is clearly yes, the west consumes too much of it. The stress leads to distraction gluttony whi
by trabant00 5y ago
How one can misspell "entertainment" as "culture"? And the answer is clearly yes, the west consumes too much of it. The stress leads to distraction gluttony which leads to detachment from the real life which leads to stress as one can hardly navigate efficiently the social hive when his mental picture of it is taken from movies, shows, social media, etc.
- thewakalix 5y agoThe same thing happened to the word "meme". It went from "unit of mimicry and replication" to "funny image macro on social media".
- jonsen 5y agoAre you referring to "entertainment" or "culture" ?
- RajSinghLA 5y agoYour confusion seems to validate the author’s choice of ‘culture.’
- krisoft 5y agoWords gain new meanings. It doesn’t kill the old meanings. From context people understand which meaning one talks about. And for those who haven’t heard of the Dawkinsian memes? Well I guess it wasn’t that succesfull of a meme after all.
- dredmorbius 5y agoIt's kind of awesome how happy accidents like this come to pollute a myriad of word meanings, though many people have absolutely no clue, and simply cannot fathom how eerily words can divest meanings, such that the meat of their importh is utterly changed. Reading this very paragraph a few centuries ago it would have seemed quite silly, with naughty interpretation.
- bryans 5y agoThe assertion that this is a "western" problem is both baseless and bizarre. https://www.statista.com/statistics/454772/number-social-media-user-worldwide-region/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/454772/number-social-med...
- trabant00 5y agoYou can dissect the western claim and find problems with it, you always can with any generalization. Or you can find it accurate enough as westerners have the time and money to spend on entertainment compared to the rest of the world. Suggestion for nitpicking: tell me about Japan.
- gonzo41 5y agoOr any part of wealthy Asia, The Indian Middle class and Europe. The grass is always greener! I would also think, that trying to keep up is the overloading thing. It's like walking into t a library and thinking you have to read all the books.
- bryans 5y agoYou're gaslighting. A complete falsehood generated by your imagination is not "accurate enough" for any situation, and crying "nitpick" doesn't magically make you correct about anything.
- trabant00 5y agoI did not say it is only the west that does this and the article itself was focused on western "culture". By no means do I wish to aggravate anyone.
- tsol 5y agoI do think western culture may be more entertainment centric, as many other countries tend to be more religion centric. Not all of them, of course. But many countries of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East place religion front and center and consequently don't value their entertainment quite as much. In American, for example, a lack of common religion means people relate through the media they consume or the activities they engage in. Culture isn't as moored to age old traditions, but instead people relish in throwing away old traditions and creating their own.
- js8 5y agoHow can one not include entertainment into culture? The word "culture" always had two meanings, a. what people in some collective do and b. "high culture", the stuff that is somehow supposed to reflect on human condition.
- prox 5y agoEntertainment is a subset of culture is it not?
- midasuni 5y agoDoesn’t “celebrities eating bugs” reflect on the human condition?
- js8 5y agoI don't think so; there is a light but no mirror.
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- onemoresoop 5y ago> Doesn’t “celebrities eating bugs” reflect on the human condition? Of course it does but not literally and seen from a certain perspective. I'm thinking of the shallow aspect of fame and the meaninglessness that comes with it and the desperation to keep the spotlight pointing at them. Celebrities behaviors are an aspect of the human nature after all.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThat's just preparation for 'new-food' being acceptable to the masses.
- Jensson 5y ago> "high culture", the stuff that is somehow supposed to reflect on human condition. "High culture" is first and foremost about marketing. Many people care more about things that are marketed as too good for the average man, and products marketed for that group is called "high culture", the name is a part of the marketing. It is similar to the difference between cheap wine and fine wine, people don't notice a difference until you tell them one is more expensive than the other and then suddenly people start noticing a huge difference.
- wott 5y agoBefore I saw your post, I was indeed about to ask "When did the word 'culture' replace 'entertainment'?" In my country, where the same phenomenon happened ('divertissement' is now labelled 'culture'), I would say it was less than 10 years ago, perhaps closer to 5 years ago for a systematisation of the use. During Covid-related lockdowns and other limitations, it reached new highs: how dared we limit access to the vital need which 'culture' is, how dared we forbid 'culture' people ('culture' producers (!)) to work for some time, and so on.
- Zababa 5y ago> During Covid-related lockdowns and other limitations, it reached new highs: how dared we limit access to the vital need which 'culture' is, how dared we forbid 'culture' people ('culture' producers (!)) to work for some time, and so on. The same thing happened in France, using the exact same wording.
- tsol 5y agoI sometimes feel as though entertainment IS becoming a large part of culture. If I never watch TV or listen to the music, nor watch videos on the internet, suddenly I'm cut off from entire conversations that are happening. I feel like I need to be plugged in to entertainment in order to truly understand the culture. But I can't say how much this would be true in 1950s America, or in other countries like Nigeria or Bangladesh
- maze-le 5y agoYou are probably thinking about "high culture" when you mention "culture". Culture is everything humans do to express themselves, from literature to theatre to entertainment to dancing to philosophy and religion.
- trabant00 5y agoThe two terms are not interchangeable. Entertainment is included in culture, but the article is about entertainment only but used culture in the title.
- lm28469 5y agoEntertainment would be low culture then (?). A lot of modern media (marvel, netflix, most of youtube, anything trending basically) is made to be consumed once and forgotten. They're templated products made to generate the maximum amount of revenues from the least amount of work. Yet this is what people think about when you talk about culture these days (and definitely what they "consume" the most), culture has been made global and is all about marketing (go watch the top 1 movie on netflix right now, red notice, it's objectively bad on almost all aspects yet it cumulated 150 million hours of streaming) Modern "culture" is almost entirely based on entertainment and pass time. How many times have I recommended a book and a movie to be told it's "too hard", "too serious", "not entertaining"... There is a reason why Marvel movies are always in the top of the charts, unplug your brain, grab you favorite sugary snacks and teleport yourself 3 hours in the future. We call it "content" for a reason, shapeless and tasteless content to fill up the mere containers we became.
- dredmorbius 5y agoMass media tends to low culture, yes, for the reason that it has to appeal to common (in both senses of the word) elements and drives: sex, violence, fear, broad humour, etc. "High culture" is narrower, and of course there's the inevitable discussion of whether or not it is better. I'll note that one era's low or broad culture can become another's high (simple distance in space and time contributes heavily to this, with Shakespeare being a notable case). One of the strong functions of high culture is as a strong signaling / credible signaling device --- if you appreciate or participate in high culture, you're demonstrating that you've put in the time required to learn its nuances and backstory. This serves as an accessible indicator of attributes which are otherwise difficult to assess. (This shows up in all kinds of cultural, faddish, or in-group behaviour, even in the name they go by, Shibboleths.) Mass media has become a delivery system for advertising and propaganda (the latter has long been a function). Mass appeal means mass advertising markets, and explains much of the push for it. That said, "high culture" affords a cultural segmentation potentially identifying a more selective, and affluent, market segment --- one with stronger appeal to at least some advertisers. The practice of adtech and interactively-targeted advertising ... somewhat subverts this relationship.
- hulitu 5y ago> How one can misspell "entertainment" as "culture"? In the western society "entertainment" is "culture". It is very hard to find real culture. In some countries bookstores are full with thrash. On radio and tv you get the same selection of mediocre till thrash offers. It is like free speach. You are "free" to speak but your voice is lost in 1000000 more voices. And if you finally are able to be heard, police comes at your door.