Entertainment based poetry was core to religion and clergy presentaiton.
Our entertainment now educates people on military tactics, space laser weapon systems, remote detonated killings, terrorism.
Ritualistic repeating
Now fully visual expereince, more powerful, different parts of mind engaged, more like actual dreams than the poetry or religion oral tradition and book reading. Why Marshall McLuhan is so important in getting people to see that the current media enviornment people tend to embrace blindly, without context, without thinking through the history of how media changes behavior.
Weapon systems and technology advancement, everything from biological to chemical and remote drones / remote video feeds and independently intelligent devices that can navigate around defenses and such... keep growing. Our love and compassion faith of every person declaring hate and war bad seems to decline. We mock and insult the 1969 Hippies at Woodstock music festival as out of touch with the "real world" in their dreams for world peace and world goodness. Where would we really be if we had put more effort into building homes, having stable education, building a stable Super Wiki systems of shared open free knowledge contributed by all.
Far better people than me hav written better words than me, my brain damage so extreme my writing is very very poor. But I can not deny the impact I have seen electric media since I started using electric communications networks at age 12 in late December 1981. Marshall McLuhan was correct. Neil Postman was correct. Electric media we are not self-aware, we are compusively behaving like when religion goes badd, Joseph Campbell was correct. James Joyce created rather a brew of structure and poetry.