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To add to all the excellent points here, I’d also like to lay the blame on the faux intellectual “gritty” amoral media that was popular in the 2010s. Shows and movies that had no message other than “everyone is a piece of shit deep down and that’s just the way the world is, kiddo”. Looking at you, Game of Thrones
I feel like these shows trained a whole generation of people to see “realism” as the only / highest standard of media, and neatly destroyed the need for media to have any coherent (let alone vaguely moral) underlying message or theme to be made. If meaningless slop is all you have access to, your ability to think critically about said slop is also diminished
Very Serious Adults In The Room Prestige TV and its consequences have been a disaster etc
GAME OF THRONES ISN’T ABOUT THAT OH MY GOD. The fucking irony to look at an anti-war, pacifist, climate change allegory and say it’s just about everyone being horrible.
i thought it was about incest and dragons