TV, sports, the movies, all entertainment, music, talk shows & so on, all are distractions designed to control your mind. The alcohol, the drugs, too, megabucks operations used to blunt your consciousness from realizing the criminal nature of existence.
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If so, is that necessarily a bad thing?
Put another way, if the (horrendously grim) truth doesn't serve us, ought we feel obligated to serve it in any way?
What's better/less bad: Terrible truth or pleasant illusion/delusion?