Entertainment: The God Of Aetheists

If you take away the emotional reaction of entertainment be it music,comedy or sport etc there is very little left. The New Religion of Entertainment sucks in its audience who can vicariously emote to artificially created scenes and diversions. The modern amphitheatre of the rock concert or pop video lends itself to this idolatorous worship.Films pull in the masses and emotions are engendered and manipulated. A documentary on the comedian Spike Milligan last night revealed him to be a manic depressive,suicide personality who claimed his problems began when he was shell shocked during WW2.I wonder if that was really the case and if he didn't have a prior condition.Whatever the case we were invited to have sympathy for this tortured genius who suffered for his art when all I could muster was a bored indifference. Self pity seemed to be Milligan's bag and no one it seems, told him to bend over to a receive a swift kick in the pants but rather indulged him in his dellusions of importance and angst. He was an emotional wreck who sought to sublimate his neurosis in comedy with the predictably disastrous results. Small wonder when he got immersed in politics it was of the Left variety where the emotionally unhinged collect to act out their infantile and regressive psychosis. Emotional incontinence across the board seems to be the prime mover in the artistic field;not always but too often.The only thing the audience can do is not get emotionally involved in the proceedings and thus maintain objectivite to the manipulations of the Entertainers.