frankly if all literature ever did was to make me feel "warm and fuzzy" i'd lose interest in it
like bro it's nice to have dessert sometimes, but i can't LIVE on that shit. give me every emotional flavour there is. take me on a fucking roller coaster ride. enrich me. teach me. change me. don't bore me with the same moralistic fluff every single goddamn time.
we'd be spiritually, intellectually, culturally, artistically and morally impoverished if that's all we ever got to read. like how do you even know the meaning of morality if you don't know what immorality is? how can you understand what makes a seemingly ordinary person a killer, a criminal or a corrupt politician, if you're given no real insight into the human psyche in all its complexities and darknesses?
how can you learn why nations go to war and why we hurt each other, so that we can learn how not to hurt each other? how can you know yourself when none of the literature around you mirrors you as you really are, and instead portrays humanity as this fake, cookie-cutter, perpetually smiley-faced falsity that you and the people you know are... clearly not? that's some creepy stepford wives bullshit
such "moral" literature is fundamentally lacking in compassion for the human condition, because it refuses to even acknowledge the human condition. i don't think it's "moral" at all; insisting that only sanitised literature (i.e. sanitised ideas of who is human and who deserves to be considered human) goes out to the masses is just people in power wanting to have control over what the rest of us can and cannot have access to, and how we develop.
it's cultural coercive control: the societal equivalent of someone not letting someone else have access to an education, for example, or to resources in general, because god forbid they develop in ways you don't want them to, or think thoughts you don't want them to. doesn't sound very moral, does it? doesn't sound very "free speech", does it?
not to mention that moralistic, warm-and-fuzzy literature is often very normative, and tells us that difference should not be tolerated because everyone has to be the same and meet the same behavioural standards in order to be "good", to be accepted. those of us who are non-normative in some way--minority races, lgbtqia+ people, disabled people, neurodivergent people--are always the first ones to be excluded from these "moral" literatures, because it's the people who are already in power who decide what's "moral" for everybody else. it may not actually feel moral to you or me, or even be as moral as it tries to appear. it's just another power grab.
not to mention that it's just bad art. art that doesn't speak to the human condition is vapid.
literature that's only warm and fuzzy is like a whole amusement park that only has the one slow-ass, cutely painted carousel. i mean those can be fun if they're one of the rides but not if they're the only ride.
bitch i'm here to go on all the rides. fuck monotony
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