Entertainment

Is lady gaga just entertainment? Is our class not that serious? blablabla, obviously those questions often pass across teachers minds...

But the real question must be What is entertainment then?

Because everyone seems to accord so much importance to what he is doing, how many times a day do people say ‘no no no, but this, this is serious.’

What is serious? something that is not entertaining?

Then maybe we should reconsider this word, one more time.

Entertainment, a very interesting term, usually it makes us think of pleasure, in the distracting sense. Playing games, reading useless magazines...

But the real meaning of entertainment may be much deeper;

this word is in French ‘divertissement’, this word comes from the latin: Divertere, Divertere means to turn away (the translation is a bit fuzzy , in french it s se detourner).

So, turn away from what?

The French philosopher Blaise Pascal, wrote a liasse about entertainment:

He was pointing the fact that the idea of death put fear in ourselves, but this fear is so deep, the anguish in which this idea put us, the fear, is to big for us. We can t handle this idea so we try to escape from this idea. Everything is just escaping, running away as far as we can. Everything includes studying working, art, maths, sciences, talking, wars... According to him, if a man could stay alone in his room, without falling into the vertigo of this idea none of the troubles of our world would exist...

marie the great medici