Categorize your entertainment
Short-form content is great.
It helps you understand nothing, but gives you that quick dopamine hit you needed an hour ago when you said to yourself, "Let's take a break, for 15 minutes."
My take today is not solely on entertainment. But against entertainment in the form of snippets.
I wish people watched more video essays and films though.
Consuming long-form videos helps in virtually nothing, provided you were born in the 1980s. But as of today, attention is a rare commodity. Which is why entertaining oneself over multiple stories is a necessity.
The ability to learn something in depth vanishes once someone delves into short-form media. I don't care the kind of media you consume, whether it be text, images, audio or videos; since we consume everything as a habit.
The point of learning is to understand how and why things are the way they are and why systems function the way they do. However, when I am scrolling, I am not in control. I have donated it to the algorithm.
To sit down for an hour or two consuming an idea instead of being bombarded by sixty different ones in the same span is simply superior.
When I plan to watch a movie, I am committing to an idea by investing my mind and time into it.
If a film has a bad start, we don't immediately leave it as is, mostly. We tend to give the time it demands to justify its production.
With The power of not knowing, you are choosing to dive deep into something, deep enough to hold that thought and return to the surface. And with the power of cinema, it tries to deliver with its best pitch. And it subtly leaves you to decide, no matter what you perceived of it.
With your differing opinion, you are now in control.