Entertainment values are very hard to quarantine. They invade religion. They are attracting an audience. They are attracting clients. How do you attract a client to a church? You attract people who have been conditioned by decades of entertainment ... by entertaining them.
One of the things that the mega-church movement has been doing to attract its thousands of congregants is to devise the service of worship as entertainment through music, light shows, cappuccino carts and all these things. The congregants will feel that they are at a rock concert and the religion is thrown in as an extra.
Entertainment is pervasive in every aspect of our lives and it drives our lives. Entertainment is such a dominant force it tends to marginalize anything that's not entertaining.
The media create expectations for us and how our lives ought to proceed. We live within those expectations. And we are the first generation that is able to start to live within its illusions.
- Neal Gabler, author of Life: the Movie.
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