Since I was a child, my parents would say, "We're going to watch a movie. Its titled 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks', or 'Song of the South', or 'Mary Poppins', or 'Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang' and not think twice about the political, ethical, moral, or socioeconomic values the movie either displayed, or seemed to display. These movies were seen by us as family members as "entertainment" and NOT to be viewed as "FACT". Even the movie "Flubber" in its original creation with Fred McMurray was "suspending our beliefs" to even think that someone could invent a rubber that was "superbouncy". But THAT was the magic of movies. We can lay aside REAL sense and take on the crazy sense the movie gives us and enjoy it for the length of the movie. I was taught this in my creative writing class to make a "Tall Tale" in which the writer is told to suspend the readers disbelief in order to give the main character a superhuman quality. I wrote a story about a rat that thwarted the homeowners best attempts at ridding the rat, that they actually became fast friends in the end. I learned storytelling from this college course I took.
But this "Woke" aspect of storytelling is killing the creative mind of ALOT of young aspiring writers who are afraid to make the main character an apparent victim of hatred (my rat) or a main character the victim of teenage mockery (my own thought) or the victim of being a nobody and of no consequence at all (Star Wars).
Humans MUST allow US to tell our stories, or else there is no HUMAN reasoning anymore.
Please give your thoughts and perspectives, because WE NEED IT to preserve our humanisticness.
