12-09-2020, 12:25 PM
I think it's possible to be a little of both.
I'm not well informed on how far back it all goes but ancient Greece had its theaters and plays.
It traveled forward from there to every other country. I'm guessing the further back you go the more
"pure" it was; being for entertainment.
Certainly in more modern times [the last 100 years?] it's slowly become more and more of a mindfuck
and quite possibly also used for extremely subversive purposes. Hollywood and the American intelligence
community have probably always been secret lovers. Hell, Hollywood was probably created JUST FOR
that kind of thing.
It IS an art for which some people have a lot of talent but it'd be too easy and even foolish to say it stopped
there. Just because you take fruit to a picnic to eat yourself doesn't mean the ants won't try to muscle in.
I'm not well informed on how far back it all goes but ancient Greece had its theaters and plays.
It traveled forward from there to every other country. I'm guessing the further back you go the more
"pure" it was; being for entertainment.
Certainly in more modern times [the last 100 years?] it's slowly become more and more of a mindfuck
and quite possibly also used for extremely subversive purposes. Hollywood and the American intelligence
community have probably always been secret lovers. Hell, Hollywood was probably created JUST FOR
that kind of thing.
It IS an art for which some people have a lot of talent but it'd be too easy and even foolish to say it stopped
there. Just because you take fruit to a picnic to eat yourself doesn't mean the ants won't try to muscle in.
