On a related note, perhaps a last component to this illiteracy in modern game writing, is the psychological angle we have hinted at.
Sigmund Freud, and his nephew, the propagandist Edward Bernays, were the people who "invented" modern manipulation of opinion. Also pop psychology, as a widespread phenomenon, the kind of "if you hate spiders, you must want to fuck spiders" stuff a schoolkid migth come out with, thinking they are edgy. I.E. the psychology that a modern graduate of English literature, are likely to write in their novel. Bernays, sometimes regarded as one of the most destructive and manipulative propagandists or advertisers in history, for example, got women to smoke, by applying the psychology of sexual deviance to the cigarette (it's a powerful, sexually suggestive, subversive, phallic symbol, that men are denying you), probably resulting in millions of extra deaths from cancer. For he knew:
"to sell to women, you must always promote it as something men are keeping away from you" - some guy on YouTube
Thus the entire feminist-supremacism movement, how to direct a society toward it's own own splitting on gender lines, the collpase of it's fertility, collapse of marriage, collapse of childbirth, collapse of the family, and the idea that working as a slave for a corporation is better than having a family, is explained in one pithy quote lol. The psychology of a romantic epic is, I would argue, much more sophisticated and natural, than the materialist one without symbology. One that lectures it's points like a manifesto, mired in the subjective trauma of a single subjective human perspective. Fantasy of the grander kind is nessecarily spiritual, mythic, with it's dreamlike symbolism, competing "gods" representing all the trans-personal psychic forces that buffet us, and inner wisdom. So Jung is superior to Freud. Materialistic Freudian pop psychology is one of the reasons for the death of the pre-modern perspecive, among the less literate moderns that become writers.
