A Global Citizen's Diary

    Cheap entertainment has a negative effect on both creativity and mental health, which is why we need to re-prioritize real art that taps into human emotion. Cheap entertainment is the most accessible entertainment, and the most accessible entertainment is naturally what people end up consuming the most. Those are things like TikTok, Instagram, fast food, etc.. It becomes harder to find motivation to do other things when these kinds of distractions are so easily accessible. They take us further and further away from fully engaging in our own creativity and our life in general. They disconnect us from the real world, and negatively impact our health.      It is evident that we as a society have gravitated towards cheap and easy distractions as entertainment instead of real art. Unhealthy entertainment is consuming our lives, and making society more and more disconnected from the real world. Cheap entertainment gives us unhealthy amounts of dopamine, affecting ...

     This is an image comparison that compares two different Greek statues, one made in the Archaic period, and one from the High Classical period. These statues are being compared because both the statues are used as a representation of a strong male. This is because the Greeks wanted to represent humanism and the importance of man. Despite the similarities in concept, these statues are still very different in style. The Metropolitan Kouros is considered abstract while the Doryphoros is a representation of realism in Greek art.   On the left is the “Metropolitan Kouros”, c. 600–590 BCE, made by an unknown artist we call the Master of the Metropolitan Kouros or the Met master. On the right is a roman copy of the original Bronze “Doryphoros” (Spear Bearer), c. 450–440 BCE. The original is from the High Classical period, by Polykleitos, the best-known theorist at the time.       The Metropolitan Kouros is a statue from the Archaic period that uses t...