"Art, Entertainment, and Entropy" argues that entertainment is seperate to art because it only calls upon old memories and media to satisfy the audience's expectations, making it the opposite of change (an essential aspect of art). The audience, in turn, is conditioned by this entertainment to grow lazy and unwilling to deal with challenging, thought-provoking art, and possibly further extends to the point of limiting our self-awareness.
The ideal of the Internet is that anybody has the power to create art without having to deal with the traditional mass media routes. While modern websites such as Youtube, Facebook, blogs, and so forth do give the users and viewers potential to publish and consume media that is more than just entertainment, its hindered by that very fact: most of the Internet is clogged such massive amounts of content (most of it more or less as mundane as entertainment) that the amount of significant change through it might be small, perhaps harder to find than than the mass media itself. Despite this, access to art (as opposed to entertainment) is easier than ever before, leaving us better than we were before the Internet, even if not by a lot.
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