Dear Impossible Readers,
Humans have always been drawn to spectacle. Drama. Competition. Entertainment. The blood that once stained the Colosseum has now been replaced by dollar signs. Just when 2025 seemed uneventful, Netflix, Paramount Skydance, and Warner Bros. delivered a finale with more zeros than we can count.
Yes. We love entertainment. And I do value copyright protection and proper business deals. They safeguard creativity and sustain industries. Yet, even with these truths, a question that has long remained unspoken is starting to surface. What are we even talking about?
Instead, we allow the blood to evaporate in the sun. Because life can be cruel. Because many of us are too busy carrying our own burdens to notice what is drying up around us. After a stressful day, all we want is to sit down, relax, enjoy, and fall asleep. And somewhere between exhaustion and entertainment, real human suffering continues silently in the background.
While corporations trade IP at a price tag hefty enough to rival the GDP of entire nations, millions of people still struggle for clean water, food, and safety. Beyond spectacles, there is a world full of genuine human stakes. It makes you question where our true priorities lie.
We know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Spectacles change, human needs remain,
Yours Possibly
Further Reading
Abdelzaher, T., Ji, H., Li, J., Yang, C., Dellaverson, J., Zhang, L., Xu, C. and Szymanski, B.K., 2020. The paradox of information access: Growing isolation in the age of sharing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.01967.
De Domenico, M. and Altmann, E.G., 2020. Unraveling the origin of social bursts in collective attention. Scientific reports, 10(1), p.4629.
Matthes, J., Heiss, R. and van Scharrel, H., 2023. The distraction effect. Political and entertainment-oriented content on social media, political participation, interest, and knowledge. Computers in Human Behavior, 142, p.107644.
Moussaid, M., Helbing, D. and Theraulaz, G., 2009. An individual-based model of collective attention. arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2757.
Netflix, 2025. Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. 5 December. [Accessed 16 December 2025].
Reuters, 2025. Paramount makes $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. 8 December. [Accessed 16 December 2025].
Xu, H., Chen, Z., Li, R. and Wang, C.J., 2020. The geometry of information cocoon: Analyzing the cultural space with word embedding models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10083.
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