In an era where storytelling has been sacrificed at the altar of formula, marketability, and shallow virtue signaling, we are losing more than creativity—we are losing cultural courage. Stories have become safe, sanitized, and soulless, evading the... thepunkphilosopher.substack.com/p/the-decay-...
messy conundrums that define real human experience. Until writers—and audiences—demand tales that embrace discomfort, doubt, and real moral struggle, we will remain a civilization that amuses itself into meaninglessness, forgetting that storytelling was never ...
meant to pacify us, but to provoke us into growth.