Thursday 9 November 2006

Leisure Time

What should the average person do when they are not working? Is there more merit in watching a Documentary or a Vin Diesel film? Are we not taking full advantage of our leisure time? Should our time away from work be light hearted or serious? Is there more value in artisan or industrial production? What is the difference in value between art and entertainment? How do these distinctions compare to the difference between elite superiority over mass taste? Has the mass productivity of our leisure time brought us cultural homogenization? Should we be concerned about crowd psychology or mass manipulation in our entertainment? Is there skepticism about the consequences of capitalism, excessive materialism or even disdain towards these values? Where are we even getting our values from? Are these not moral distinctions and judgements? Possibly from a more traditional time? Have our values even changed?

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