George Orwell, who write 1984 and Animal Farm, among others, once said:

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon… And looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.”

Therefore, the question was asked, are all good stories inherently political? I don’t think that’s remotely true.