> > Hollywood tends to churn out bad but high-grossing movies rather
> > than good movies because they realized that people prefer not to
> > think.
This is wrong. People avoid challenging movies not just out of a desire
"not to think", but from a fear of feeling stupid, of not "getting it".
An understandable fear if you walk into the theater without enough
background knowledge to decode the imagery.
This is an insignificant distinction, I know. But whenever anyone uses
the <"They" do X because "they" don't like to think> meme format I can't
help reading it as, "people who do X are stupid. I don't do X. Therefore
I'm not stupid."
Flawed logic at best.
-Prof. Tim