Entertaiment is a broad term that can refer to any activity that is entertaining to an audience, from a private entertainment choice selected for a single individual to the staging of a banquet adapted for two or to performances intended for thousands. Entertainment is often designed to resonate with the core themes of the world that humans evolved to deeply respond to – such as social backstabbing and murders, and it can also be designed to stimulate the brain in ways that release seratonin and dopamine.

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