This isn’t hard. You just give people the content they want without commentary or social engineering, or at least keeping the social engineering subtle and minimal.
X-Men was always a thinly veiled allegory for “equality” movements.
Superman and Captain America were pimping the New Deal and later WWII.
Even faerie tales had an intention to promote certain ideas and mores, but they had to entertain before they could work. They also worked with parents rather than against them, partly because the parents controlled and disseminated the media their children accessed and ingested.
This isn’t hard. You just give people the content they want without commentary or social engineering, or at least keeping the social engineering subtle and minimal.
X-Men was always a thinly veiled allegory for “equality” movements.
Superman and Captain America were pimping the New Deal and later WWII.
Even faerie tales had an intention to promote certain ideas and mores, but they had to entertain before they could work. They also worked *with* parents rather than against them, partly because the parents controlled and disseminated the media their children accessed and ingested.
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