Rants from an gamer

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vlad321 said:

Did you seriously just try to put Avatar and To Kill a Mockingbird in the same thought process and category? I am very well aware that art further culture, but let's face it. Avatar didn't do jack shit. Out of all the entertainment out there, only a small percent of it actually contributes to worthwhile culture. The other is just useless shit like Jersey Shore.

Also look at the pyramid you (it didn't actually link well) linked. The security of the body, of resources, of health, etc. is very damn near the bottom. Just after breathing, eating, fucking, etc. As you said yourself, it fulfills needs, but those are the last needs that need to be fulfilled. Meanwhile what teachers, professors, researchers, etc. do is they address our needs towards the Safety level. People are just too fuckign dumb to realize it which is what the problem is.

First of all, you're reading the pyramid wrong. The needs at the bottom ar the more important ones. The piramid collapses without them. The ones at the top ar the superior, more complex needs, that however cannot be fulfilled without first fulfilling the oners at the bottom. Art satisfies the need at the top, which makes it very unecessary.

And really, To Kill a Mockingbird is just as useful as Avatar for society. Both try to fulfill superior abstarct needs, but they don't do jack for fulfilling the more important basic needs. You can leave without them, but would you?