Social Influences – Entertainment

Entertainment, from my point of view, is something that humans invented to hinder mankind development. Think about it, its a waste of human resource as a whole. People waste time to produce it, and people waste time in it. Think about facebook! How many employees are playing farmville or whatever the public obsession lays during office hours? How much time did kids spend on movies, facebook and computer games instead of schoolwork? (Such idea suggested by our school not from personal point of view :D) Not to mention how many smart computer genius that could have improvise the google search engine, enhance wikipedia articles and more instead of designing and planning all those unnecessary follies or how much money and resources  (BILLIONS $_$) can be invested in humanitarian aid, finding alternative energies, increase food production instead of mere movie making. Since 1930s, mankind has become more distracted and less focused. This overall hinders our development. The introduction of Xbox 360, Xbox Kinect, Wii, PlayStation 3, are all distractions for us. We could have been productive, but we decided not to and indulge ourselves in such useless stuff. Humans are doomed to delay our progress and eventually stop evolving, simply because the invasion of entertainment into our lives has stripped away our potential to improve.