“Just what is entertainment worth?”
Not much to me. Life is too short to be distracted by “entertainment”.
Things to do, places to go, women to dine, hold and kiss.
I watch the financial channels, old movies and the Discovery, History and Military channels to watch them build big things and/or blow them all to hell.
Hollywood? Drop dead and take all your commie/socialist America hating lefties and crybabies with you. I hope you all starve.
I think that Allan Bloom covers this in "Closing of the American Mind". IIRC, he says that leisure time was once scarce and was eagerly used by people in order to truly enjoy life and/or to better themselves. Nowadays we have more leisure time, we often don't know what to do, and too many of us flop in front of the TV and say "Entertain me".
Sad.