Nietzsche was right: what is best and what is worst in us are often inseparable. The artist whose aesthetic gift and sensitivity make her impractical and unambitious; the lawyer whose intense drive and gift for dialectic make him single-minded and ungenerous; the man of wealth and power whose vast resources…
It is evident as a kind of motive intrinsic to the vast majority of media and entertainment that it believes it matters, and this entertainment continues to exist for a single correlative reason: as viewers in the audience, we believe that it matters. But neither of those assertions actually implies…
