Whenever we catch a whiff of the debate about fiction nowadays it becomes clear that its nature and purpose have been turned upside down in the West. SUBVERSION. The mainstream chorus in the West is certain that anime, especially certain types, are ESCAPISM. This branding implies that its creators and their audiences are living filth who should be deprived of human rights, gathered in camps, and silently genocided to make the world a better place. What is their crime? Their fiction does not concern itself with political activism, social issues, or the director's projected reality of being a miserable woke cunt, but instead tries to show something hopeful, beautiful, something appealing, fun, and in the best case something inspiring that speaks to the human condition. While the accusation of wish-fulfillment and self-gratification can certainly be flung at some segments (falling short of drama's sacred mission) no ill-will for the audience fuel their creation. But can political activism, blatant and paper-thin allegory be art? The counter-accusation to their Escapism is that no fiction, if it concerns itself with political or social issues, can be art, but has to be branded as ACTIVISM. For if Isekai anime are Escapism for ignoring social and political activism, then so are Homer's poems and Tolkien's epics. So are the works of Shakespeare, the monumental work of Dante, and the works of all great poets and writers who laid foundations and help built the house that we call Western civilization.. by cultivating the soul of man. So we arrive at the irony that while those who hijack, abuse, and exploit art for their political activism, with a shrieking appeal to 'real issues,' can only show for effect the uglification, brutalization, and entitled degeneration of society. While those who wander in foreign worlds, partake in great adventures, descend to hellish depths, and ascend to divine heights, pursue drama's true purpose, as our ancestors did for millennia: to cut through the noise of the now, and address man in his eternal spirit.