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Originally Posted by HarryT
Once authors start doing that, they seem to find it hard to stop. John Ringo is the classic example: he used to write good military SF; now he writes extreme right-wing political diatribes in the guise of fiction.
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Same thing happened with my favorite playwright, Harold Pinter. His early plays were beautiful, mysterious, with rich layers and deep undertones. Then he started to get incredibly political and his plays were just one-note diatribes on how governments strip away human rights. They all started looking and sounding the same, with no question as to what the intended meaning and purpose of the work. At that point, it stopped being art...and just became almost propaganda.--even if its for a good cause, like stopping governments for imprisoning writers and artists, and fighting for human rights.