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You are not "rotting your brain" because you read a fan fiction instead of War and Peace . You are not intellectually inferior because you watched Love Is Blind instead of the latest A24 art-house horror film.

So go ahead. Queue up that reality show you’re embarrassed to admit you love. Watch that speed-run of a video game you’ll never play. Scroll the fan theories. AsiaM.23.01.10.Song.Nan.Yi.And.Shen.Na.Na.XXX.1...

We are living in the golden age of maximalist entertainment. Between the streaming wars, the podcast boom, and the algorithm feeding us short-form dopamine, we have more popular media at our fingertips than any civilization in history. Yet, we often find ourselves scrolling for 45 minutes, watching nothing, because we are paralyzed by choice. You are not "rotting your brain" because you

But if it made you laugh on a Tuesday night, or distracted you from a bad thought, or gave you something to talk about at the water cooler—it did its job. Queue up that reality show you’re embarrassed to

Entertainment is the water we swim in. It is the ritual that helps us disconnect from the anxiety of existence so we can reconnect with ourselves.

Here is my controversial take for today: Stop feeling guilty about your "trash" entertainment.