“A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area.”

As quoted in An Interview with Jim Carrey: We talk to the comedy mastermind about his most reserved performance http://movies.ign.com/articles/498/498545p1.html by Jeff Otto IGN (12 March 2004) <br class="br">Context: I like people. They&#x27;re entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.

In a discussion thread https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgrvvp9QzjiFuYwLi/high-status-and-stupidity-why#64QSdqdMekvGrpuaH on LessWrong, January 2010 <br class="br">Context: One solution [to the problem that high status might cause stupidity] that might work (and I think has worked for me, although I didn&#x27;t consciously choose it) is to periodically start over. Once you&#x27;ve achieved recognition in some area, and no longer have as much interest in it as you used to, go into a different community focused on a different topic, and start over from a low-status (or at least not very high status) position.

(1957) from "Classroom Without Walls", Explorations Vol. 7, 1957; reprinted in Explorations in Communication ed. E. Carpenter & M. McLuhan, (Boston: Beacon, 1960); and again in McLuhan: Hot and Cool ed. G. E. Stearn (NY: Dial, 1967).
1960s, Hot & Cool (1967)

Source: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 271

Pencek, David. &quot;Duff does double-duty&quot; http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20050721/go/2182692.html. Norwich Bulletin. July 21 2005. Retrieved October 25 2006. <br class="br">On the compilation album Most Wanted (2005), her fourth album.

The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005), p. 180
Context: Before industrial civilization, local and regional communities made their own music, their own entertainment. The esthetics were based on traditions that went far back in time—i. e. folklore. But part of the con of mass culture is to make you forget history, disconnect you from tradition and the past. Sometimes that can be a good thing. Sometimes it can even be revolutionary. But tradition can also keep culture on an authentic human level, the homespun as opposed to the mass produced. Industrial civilization figured out how to manufacture popular culture and sell it back to the people. You have to marvel at the ingenuity of it! The problem is that the longer this buying and selling goes on, the more hollow and bankrupt the culture becomes. It loses its fertility, like worn out, ravaged farmland. Eventually, the yokels who bought the hype, the pitch, they want in on the game. When there are no more naive hicks left, you have a culture where everybody is conning each other all the time. There are no more earnest "squares" left—everybody's "hip", everybody is cynical.

Source: Sweetest song I know

Source: &quot;Not So Bored in the House&quot; https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/07/not-so-bored-in-the-house-with-tiktok, Vanity Fair (20 July 2020).