Zero Brain Cells

Former Fat Guy dot Com wrote:

After a long hard day at work, the natural tendency of the office slave is to put one’s mind on autopilot and watch the events of his or her life pass by. This is the point where there are zero brain cells left in his head, and all that’s left to do is to sit and stop thinking…for the person who’s squeezed out. But this is actually the reason why the entertainment industry is big and popular.

Though this point may be inconvenient for others who are pressed for time in coming up with brain-racking outputs, it’s a state that’s convenient for many businessmen. See, when one becomes a zombie from too much thinking, they turn into a passive audience, susceptible to “comfort” things offered, with close to zero resistance on irrational concepts.
For instance, reaching this point is what makes comedians sell their shows. Silly jokes and anecdotes that only require passive listening and zero thinking is something that’s attractive to this market. Whether the stories illicit a laugh no longer matters, as long as they are allowed to take off their thinking hats, the clowns on stage are free to let lose.
An escape to another world is another sellable concept to this crowd. When this world takes too much of a person’s mind, one creates a shelter to retreat to in peace. These other worlds come in different forms and packages. Some come in a disguise of bounded papers. There are many of this kind floating around, and in […]

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