-that I was talking about in the previous post. Having covered the (nonexistent) entertainment value inherent in modern classical music, I'd now like to go over entertainment. Mainly, what is entertainment. I'm going to forgo the typical "X dictionary records entertainment as..." because it's way too overused and provides absolutely no intelligent dialogue to any sort of discourse. Back to entertainment.
I believe entertainment, in any of its forms, provides humanity a means with which to "escape" from reality. To immerse oneself in a world completely unrelated to their own, and to forget about life for a while. Reality, as interesting as it is, is always there. To some extent, humans always take what they have for granted. After a while, reality begins to drone, and to some extent, everyone just wants to escape. Why do we take vacations? For the same reason. To escape from our realities. With music, we immerse ourselves in sound, books, another world. Art serves as a change of pace for the eyes, and sculptures create things that last (relatively) forever, and in the human real of existence, that's a rarity. I believe that these forms of escape allow us to look back onto our own existences and re-appreciate them better, making it a little bit easier to live out our lives.
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