I suspect fiction that shapes history is generally poor quality (eg Ayn Rand). Good fiction tends to foster acceptance of world as is.
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This is a) wrong and b) an instrumentally bad value judgment to make, b/c it implies "don't make art that changes things, it'll be bad". >
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Tolkien rants against allegories for the same reason. Any allegorical work makes the fictional world subservient to our own.
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Also add, every religion based story ever





