Si lingua latina scribes, homines putant prudentem esse.
When I eat a cheeseburger at Umami, ride a rollercoaster, or laugh at a joke in a late nght talk-show host monologue, I am partaking of an “entertainment”. These are those momentary pleasures in life that help you relax or give you a cheap thrill – and they are instantly disposable.
But movies, videogames and music are different. We “invest” ourselves greatly in them. Ask any young fan who thrilled to vicariously inhabiting one of the characters in the Hunger Games. Dick Clark once rightly said that music becomes the “soundtrack of our lives.” Movies have always been (and now, too, videogames) the alternative “religions” or mythos that we choose to identify with, and by which we often define and direct how we think about our lives, sometimes to an extent exceeding actual religions or ideologies. What I’m saying is that the “psychic stakes” in this current dispute are a little higher and more vital to our culture than it just being a “consumer complaint” situation.(с)
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But movies, videogames and music are different. We “invest” ourselves greatly in them. Ask any young fan who thrilled to vicariously inhabiting one of the characters in the Hunger Games. Dick Clark once rightly said that music becomes the “soundtrack of our lives.” Movies have always been (and now, too, videogames) the alternative “religions” or mythos that we choose to identify with, and by which we often define and direct how we think about our lives, sometimes to an extent exceeding actual religions or ideologies. What I’m saying is that the “psychic stakes” in this current dispute are a little higher and more vital to our culture than it just being a “consumer complaint” situation.(с)
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