I think the Chimptopia indie pilot trailer/pitch thing explains exactly what my issue is when conservatives attempt to make art, especially in our divisive political climate. They view art as so inherently political (which don't get me wrong, it is) but to such an extreme that everything creative immediately becomes propaganda. Nothing can actually be taken as a creative's genuine attempt to express a struggle, theme, idea, or question because "NO! It's about WOKE-IFYING the masses!!!" Which then makes it impossible for them to actually make anything interesting and real because they constantly have to police their own work for the exact messages they're sending to make sure it's anti-woke instead of just using art to express themselves like its meant to do. This creates an insufferable and boring panopticon no one wants to create under which I feel like is why so many of them resort to "self-aware" comedy/parody genres that rely heavily on making jabs at things they don't like.
Their mindset around creativity is so subtractive that it's always like "alright unlike these dirty LIBERALS we're gonna make a story that doesn't have all this woke crap" only to realize that it's pretty hard to a guide a narrative and make something interesting when you're solely working through a mentality of "any story is fine just as long as it isn't woke". But stories are meant TO say something, not to NOT say something. Many conservative creatives fail to understand that which is how we end up with the regurgitative "WOKE IS CRINGE RIGHT GUYS???" that has nothing original to say like the New Norm.
