Entertaiment – How Entertainment Hits on Social Issues Our Brains Are Evolved To React To

The story of Scheherazade, a figure in the Persian professional storytelling tradition, illustrates how entertainment can evolve and adapt. The story has been turned into an orchestral work by Rimsky-Korsakov and other composers, made into a film by Pasolini, and even into innovative video games. Entertaiment explores the idea that entertainment hits on themes our brains were evolved to react deeply to – like backstabbing, murders and other social facets of life we must be aware of in order to live in a society.