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The opposite of entertainment is not work—it is boredom. And because the modern economy has nearly eliminated unmediated boredom (no waiting without a phone, no silence without a podcast), entertainment has become the default state of consciousness . We are no longer a culture that seeks entertainment; we are an entertainment that occasionally seeks culture.