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Do your Political Views shape how your villains and heroes act?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7511368" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>But the person in this example is clearly allowing their political views to impact the choice of villain. Another GM might focus more on making an interesting villain regardless of how much that jives with his or her POV. Maybe the villain is the CEO, maybe it is a union leader, or an activist (or someone with zero clear political implications). Also, just because people can read a political message in something, doesnt mean the GM was guided or influenced by politics. Again, I'd go back to the distinction I made earlier between someone who is actively using the heroes and villains as mouthpieces for their political views (or even using the general set-up in that way) versus someone who isn't even thinking in this terms. If we are then going to get into people saying 'there is still a hidden message or subconscious intent', I think that is so speculative and so driven by the interpreter's own lens, it is kind of vague and meaningless most of the time. And not saying most books or stories have no message or subtext. But there is a spectrum here when it comes to how political creative works are. Saying everything is automatically political, because politics is all, so expands the meaning of the term, it makes it meaningless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7511368, member: 85555"] But the person in this example is clearly allowing their political views to impact the choice of villain. Another GM might focus more on making an interesting villain regardless of how much that jives with his or her POV. Maybe the villain is the CEO, maybe it is a union leader, or an activist (or someone with zero clear political implications). Also, just because people can read a political message in something, doesnt mean the GM was guided or influenced by politics. Again, I'd go back to the distinction I made earlier between someone who is actively using the heroes and villains as mouthpieces for their political views (or even using the general set-up in that way) versus someone who isn't even thinking in this terms. If we are then going to get into people saying 'there is still a hidden message or subconscious intent', I think that is so speculative and so driven by the interpreter's own lens, it is kind of vague and meaningless most of the time. And not saying most books or stories have no message or subtext. But there is a spectrum here when it comes to how political creative works are. Saying everything is automatically political, because politics is all, so expands the meaning of the term, it makes it meaningless. [/QUOTE]
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