What Is Wrong With A Society (or a species) That Spends This Kind Of Money For On Demand Fantasy Escape, And So Little On Everything Else That's Important

This is an illustration of just what "Business As Usual" entails now. All you need to do is spend heavily on both on demand fantasy and escape, as well as do everything you can to get people hating the media, and vola, you have a people who cannot make either thoughtful, or heartfelt, decisions on much of anything that is important, and for no other reason than their attention has been fully redefined, preprogrammed,  and  booked.  And of course, more big economic players are set to arrive on the scene, and throw even more money at all of this on demand escape, while the misery index of what we are not spending money on grows almost geometrically now.

This is a moral disgrace that's almost as big as the mountain of money fueling the whole mess, and that ought to be raising the stink it obviously doesn't now. And until it does, we are doomed. Until each and every one of us confronts this terrible discrepancy we are most assuredly doomed.

And remember here. This is not about whether its OK or not to have play time or not. Or whether enjoying entertainment is wrong. This is about the obscene over commoditization of all of these, ordinarily just fine, pursuits simply because a few individuals have found it so profitable, as well as so successful in making them go off the edge of all sense of proportion in personal aggrandizement.

The question then becomes, what are you going to do about it?

The quick list of linked articles:

1: Netflix's Content Budget Is Updated To $13B For 2018

2: 2018 Video Game Industry Statistics, Trends & Data

3: If you hate the media, you’re more likely to be fooled by a fake headline

4: ''NOBODY’S MARCHING ON WASHINGTON BECAUSE THEY’RE UPSET ABOUT FACEBOOK'' -- WALL STREET IS BETTING THAT LAWMAKERS WANT TO HUMILIATE BIG TECH — BUT NOT REGULATE IT

5: Beware of tech money in entertainment, Liberty Media execs warn

If you hate the media, you’re more likely to be fooled by a fake headline

''NOBODY’S MARCHING ON WASHINGTON BECAUSE THEY’RE UPSET ABOUT FACEBOOK'' -- WALL STREET IS BETTING THAT LAWMAKERS WANT TO HUMILIATE BIG TECH — BUT NOT REGULATE IT

Beware of tech money in entertainment, Liberty Media execs warn