"The Last Jedi" and the Politicization of Storytelling

This is not to suggest that using art to make a socio-political point is necessarily bad, only when those points become detrimental to art itself. When the driving impulse is, "Use the story to serve these agendas," when politics dictates how our stories are told and eclipses universal truths about the human experience - the deeper things that actually touch us - the result is an artistically diminished product.