(1) I usually get up at six in the morning, sometimes at five or even four or three. Those wee hours are the only ones of quietude in my mind-torturing life. I always crave silence so much that I usually try to stay away even from music and movies, which I know are important.
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Movies & music are mere distractions. If they are of any value, it's as a sublimation of the angst & dread of the horrors of the human condition.
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Yes, entertainment movies and music are mere distractions all right. But I hope there are serious movies and music out there. Moreover, many movies and music convey instructive information. They teach us how things are in strange lands, how songs and scenarios ought to be written
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I basically try to avoid things of the entertainment kind. When I see movies or listen to music, I choose the most serious, informative kinds. If I don't see anything instructive in something, I avoid it. That's why I basically stopped watching TV for entertainment when I was 17.
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When I do feel like seeing or listening to something of the entertainment kind, I try to enjoy it in a foreign language and learn the language while being entertained. I always try not to see or hear anything superficially entertaining if it is in my mother tongue. I'm stoic.