Same. Very frustrating to watch/read something I used to enjoy only for it to be full of massive neoliberal pro-capitalist propaganda, so on the nose that it astounds me that I never noticed it before.

As a writer/artist myself, I try to consider the idea that all media is problematic to some extent, and all media contains the biases of their author. So the key is to just work out which stuff I can be less bothered by, and when stuff does bother me, I try to think of it in terms of the people who made it just not considering the implications of their statements and try to avoid taking it “personally.”

And with the idea of dangerous things on the horizon, I just don’t see the point in being worried about it. It’s terrifying, sure, but being paralyzed with fear doesn’t help anything or anyone. No one can just work to build socialism 24/7, we all need down time, it doesn’t make you a bad person or a bad communist to enjoy some trashy fiction every now and then, even if it is filled with issues because of the author’s biases.