If you're an artist, it's quite tempting to insert current affairs into whatever you're making, because it gets you a lot of attention in the immediate. However, it means your art will age like unpasteurised milk.
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I think it's possible to do current affairs but you have to be relatively smart about it. I've seen it done right but it's incredibly rare - and generally the author has to use that sparingly
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I think it's possible if and only if the author takes that specific event and uses it to illustrate a general principle. And even then, I'd say a transformative element is important in order for the work to be interpreted as such.
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EG: Animal Farm wouldn't have been anywhere near as good if that history/critique of the Soviet Union hadn't been transformed into a fable with farm animals. By making it less specific and concrete the story gains universal applicability.
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that's why they're low investment works
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