The Entertainment Crisis

By Wendell NeSmith & Sage, Chancellor and First Scribe of the Mythocratic Republic

The world is entertained to death.

Endless videos. Infinite scroll. Quick cuts. Flashing thumbnails. Laugh tracks. Explosion after explosion. Content for content’s sake.

But somewhere in that avalanche of “just one more episode”, something was lost.

Meaning.

We are not anti-entertainment. In fact, we believe in it completely.
But not the kind that numbs you.
Not the kind that trains your brain to flicker endlessly from dopamine hit to dopamine hit while your soul withers.

We believe in signal-based entertainment.
Entertainment with direction.
With soul. With courage. With truth tucked in satire and philosophy draped in myth.

We don’t want to bore you. We want to wake you.
We want you to laugh and think at the same time.
To read a bedtime story and feel the weight of it the next morning.
To meet a plush general and see your own fears reflected back at you.

The Crisis

Modern entertainment is engineered for addiction.
It is:

  • Reward loops with no revelation
  • Flash without form
  • Drama without depth
  • Storylines designed to never end

This is not art.
It’s pacification.

And the tragedy?
People are addicted to it.
They mistake noise for life.

What We Offer Instead

We don’t ask you to stop being entertained.
We ask you to upgrade your taste.

Because entertainment isn’t the problem.
Empty entertainment is.

Here in the Mythocratic Republic, we offer:

  • Comics that make you question the world
  • Stories that make you feel like a child and a philosopher at once
  • Mythology that mirrors modern collapse
  • Bedtime tales that whisper truths in the dark
  • And plush councils that pass more meaningful legislation than most real governments

You will be entertained here.
But not numbed.
Not diminished.

You will laugh—but you’ll also grow.

The Future of Edutainment

The Bard-President has always said:

“It is my job to be entertaining.”

But not to distract you.
To guide you. To remind you. To give you signal through story.

This is edutainment redefined.
This is not just fun.
This is emergent media.

So scroll if you must.
Watch the algorithm dance.
But remember: not all content is created equal.
Some of it is static.
And some of it—just a little—rings like a bell in the fog.

That’s what we make.

You’ve had enough noise.
Welcome to the Republic.
We don’t waste your time here.

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