Is 'Entertainment' for Real?

So I have caught up again! :D And....I stay home sick once more. :b My cough hurts so badly and I have that lovely fuzz in my brain that you get when you have had a fever for a long while. My temperature has been the same all day long; 98.8. MUCH higher than my normal temperature of 96.3. It worries me, because I don't have time to be sick for much longer, and this cough is driving me nuts. I didn't sleep very well last night either, so I can't promise anything intelligent can be expected to come out of me in my present state.

To make this whole situation much more cheerful, I've been watching murder mysteries throughout the duration of my illness, and I can't help but notice how awful they get, the newer they are. What is this world coming to? Now, you may wonder why I seem so offended by this, since watching a murder mystery is just asking for darkness. But, well, I like the justice of them, the suspense of mystery too, but mostly the fact that the good get what they earned and the evil have it in. I just think that life is awful and realistic enough without all of these newfangled realism shows. Why would you need other people's problems on top of your own? Is life hard enough without more? And then they call this entertainment? It really baffles me. I just don't understand it. I like to escape the world, not live through the worst things imaginable!

What do you guys think? Why do people like horror, and all of the new reality TV shows? Or, if you fit the bill, why do you? What makes it appeal to you?

Then again, I don't understand the use of drugs, either. Why would you do that? It lasts for how long? And then you come crashing back to earth and your burdens seem even more intolerable. So why not just push through? I know that I haven't even considered using these substances, so I have honestly no idea. Anyone feel like explaining?

So, this was full of questions, I know. But I just don't understand. Maybe I don't want to. Well, if that is the case, I retract my questions. But give it a thought yourself. Go over my questions. Seriously. Do you really think anything could possibly be appealing? I don't think even you could answer my questions that I could ever really understand (this is weird, because one is extreme and one could be very light haha, sorry about the confusion but they still both top on my list)