New York Times bestselling military science fiction and fantasy author John Ringo known for his series like Black Tide Rising and the Legacy of the Aldenata explains why “woke stories and characters suck.”
Everything to them is either a Political Soapbox to signal for Validation and Brownie Points or A therapy session or struggle session to help them through their own issues, problems and inadequencies. They treat all writing drafts, assignments and tasks as a personal journal or diary. These people are unhinged and mentally ill. Everything has to reflect THEIR VIEW or THEIR PERCEIVED WORLD AS THEY WANT IT TO BE. Thats how they reconcile their failures or project their failures onto others to get validation and brownie points from other ill woke people or to help reconcile the fact the world aint what they want it to be so they have to work through their own issues and problems like a dear diary therapy session otherwise they go crazy.
Let's take as an example a typical Horatio Alger story. Poor kid struggles through life, supporting a mom, aunt, kid brother, or just himself. He keeps at it until he rises to a place in the world where he IS somebody. Whatever you might think of this kind of story, it works because there is an arc to the rags to riches concept. If a "woke" writer had tackled this assignment, she (I'm assuming most of this crap is churned out by disgruntled women), would have spent the entire book/movie/episode "proving" how unfair the world is because implying her "poor" protagonist had any growing to do in it would be tantamount to admitting he was the "problem." What might have been an interesting story becomes a "woke" screed against the Mammon-worshipping world, as if all that was needed for the protagonist to live his best life was for the "bad guys" to give him respect, position, wealth, even dignity.
So the problem isn't that "woke" stories are bad in and of themselves, but the people writing them are surrounded by people who have lost touch with reality, and become emotionally inaccessible or self-indulgent in pity parties and egregious fantasizing of being given things they didn't earn?
Everything to them is either a Political Soapbox to signal for Validation and Brownie Points or A therapy session or struggle session to help them through their own issues, problems and inadequencies. They treat all writing drafts, assignments and tasks as a personal journal or diary. These people are unhinged and mentally ill. Everything has to reflect THEIR VIEW or THEIR PERCEIVED WORLD AS THEY WANT IT TO BE. Thats how they reconcile their failures or project their failures onto others to get validation and brownie points from other ill woke people or to help reconcile the fact the world aint what they want it to be so they have to work through their own issues and problems like a dear diary therapy session otherwise they go crazy.
Let's take as an example a typical Horatio Alger story. Poor kid struggles through life, supporting a mom, aunt, kid brother, or just himself. He keeps at it until he rises to a place in the world where he IS somebody. Whatever you might think of this kind of story, it works because there is an arc to the rags to riches concept. If a "woke" writer had tackled this assignment, she (I'm assuming most of this crap is churned out by disgruntled women), would have spent the entire book/movie/episode "proving" how unfair the world is because implying her "poor" protagonist had any growing to do in it would be tantamount to admitting he was the "problem." What might have been an interesting story becomes a "woke" screed against the Mammon-worshipping world, as if all that was needed for the protagonist to live his best life was for the "bad guys" to give him respect, position, wealth, even dignity.
In this case, the pic says it all.
So the problem isn't that "woke" stories are bad in and of themselves, but the people writing them are surrounded by people who have lost touch with reality, and become emotionally inaccessible or self-indulgent in pity parties and egregious fantasizing of being given things they didn't earn?
There's a reason I've been reading Ringo for years. Great writer, smart guy.
She is a hologram, how is that wOkE?
John Ringo isn’t really that great of an author to cast stones. Just read Through the Storm recently, and it’s no Barsoom Project.
Rather people just write what they like and ignore posturing, books will find their audiences.