Modern entertainment is essentially Soviet “socialist realism” repackaged for the age of wokery -- it is not meant primarily to entertain but to proselytize the virtues of revolutionary thought. The reason woke entertainment tends to fail at the box office is that a character’s race or sexuality is generally not relevant to the plot of …
Modern entertainment is essentially Soviet “socialist realism” repackaged for the age of wokery -- it is not meant primarily to entertain but to proselytize the virtues of revolutionary thought. The reason woke entertainment tends to fail at the box office is that a character’s race or sexuality is generally not relevant to the plot of a general-interest movie. So when every progressive trope has to be shoehorned in, the movie or show becomes paint by numbers dreck as the focus on race, sexuality etc. rather than universal themes actually makes it unentertaining.
Modern entertainment is essentially Soviet “socialist realism” repackaged for the age of wokery -- it is not meant primarily to entertain but to proselytize the virtues of revolutionary thought. The reason woke entertainment tends to fail at the box office is that a character’s race or sexuality is generally not relevant to the plot of a general-interest movie. So when every progressive trope has to be shoehorned in, the movie or show becomes paint by numbers dreck as the focus on race, sexuality etc. rather than universal themes actually makes it unentertaining.
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