Entertainment content is often dismissed as "junk food" for the brain. But junk food, when it is all that is available, becomes the main course. Popular media is the lens through which most people see the world. It teaches us how to fall in love, what justice looks like, who the villains are, and whether the future is worth waiting for. To study it is to study the modern soul—distracted, diverse, data-driven, and desperately searching for the next great story.
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