The idea is that entertainment shouldn’t be taken so seriously. Entertainment is for enjoyment; actors, musicians, billionaires getting married and members of the royal family are all purveyors of enjoyment. A public good and, by extension, a moral good. Enjoyment, in this calculus, is not political; it is merely passive, feel-good, a dopamine-hit for people fatigued by the daily grind. Politically inert. And so the media is in a frenzy to simply document, not interpret, what the rich and powerful do. This ideological distancing does a weird thing to the culture. It takes us back to feudalism.

Rohitha Naraharisetty, The Swaddle