Anytime anything popular gets dragged here there’s always a few “let people enjoy things” and “don’t ruin peoples fun” and “don’t be a weird cynical hipster” and what have you.
Except for the most popular series of children books in history. For whatever reason that’s apparently weapons free for Hater Team 6 to go to town on. I’ve seen people say was shouldn’t ruin peoples “favorite toy” when it comes to sports, Twilight, Marvel Movies and astrology, but what makes those sacrosanct and Harry Potter fair game?
This applies somewhat to Hamilton too.
During the height of the Cold War, the CIA funded creative writing workshops in Iowa to promote ‘show, don’t tell’ in writing specifically to undermine left-wing movements . On sites like Snopes, they’ll say something like: “No, it’s false, ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ isn’t CIA propaganda (The CIA was just funding the workshops that made it possible :big-cool: )”
It was absolutely intended to prevent Marxist / Socialist / Communist ideology from becoming commonplace in working class America. It also has the added benefit to the upper classes of being able to more easily manipulate the working class by presenting ‘show, don’t tell’ as an ‘educated’ writing tool, and that they, too, can be part of the ruling class as long as they make sure to obfuscate any ideologies, philosophies, or understandings of class structure.
This attitude, unfortunately, still prevails today. Telling your audience directly about what is happening is considered “poor writing” in western academics, and so it’s automatically dismissed without considering the material conditions under which it was written.
