I can’t imagine anything more destructive to artistic talent than imposing shallow, temporal politics and ideology upon it. It’s in every genre - the more ‘woke’ they become, the more their talent seems to dull. So many writers deal in the picyunish now, instead of big, sweeping ideas.
Big, sweeping ideas are symptoms of racism, fascism, and Nazism. We should only write about banning straws, not grasping at them in desperate circumstances.