Jason Preston
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Now that's entertainment

Jason Preston · 1 min read ·

It’s amusing to me that most people think that something has to have value or meaning before they can appreciate it. I hear it all the time: “I thought Bad Boys II had cool explosions, but I couldn’t really find any deeper message. I probably won’t see it again.”

People are obsessed with meaning. But I love to be entertained. I can name literally hundreds of things that have neither value nor meaning, but that I find perfectly entertaining. Here’s five just to get you started:

  1. Couch forts

  2. Watching someone with sea legs on dry land

  3. Bad Boys II

  4. Shiny objects

  5. Jeff Goldblum

The point is that art and entertainment doesn’t NEED to have some sort of social agenda or political message in order to be worth my time.

I can watch Jackie Chan’s Legend of Drunken Master a bazillion times and it will be just as great. Hell, I’d watch The Fast and the Furious if I Paul Walker wasn’t such a horrible actor.

And besides, entertainment is so much more entertaining if you just sit back and allow yourself to be entertained. More people should try it.